Boris Sidis Quotes

Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

Boris Sidis

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• Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Music
  • Science

• Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • History
  • Science
  • Philosophy

• I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Family
  • Together
  • Science

• I love science fiction.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Love
  • Science
  • Fiction

• So I decided on science when I was in college.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Science
  • College
  • Decided

• The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Science

• When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Science

• Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Business
  • Science

• Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Science

• You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• I've been on this kick reading about the beginning of forensic science: autopsies, fingerprinting, psychological profiling. I've been reading a lot of books about forensic anthropology.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Science
  • Reading
  • Beginning

• Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • People
  • Up
  • Science

• If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • May
  • Science
  • Principles

• The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Science
  • Study

• Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• If we could have ended the war by showing the power of science without killing a single person, all of us would now be happier, more reasonable and much more safe.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Power
  • War
  • Science

• When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses-that is science.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Ocean

• I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

  

  Samuel Hahnemann
  • Important
  • Science
  • Humanity

• There is no conflict between science and religion.

  

  Georges Lemaitre
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Conflict

• If the politics of disease are to be understood, particularly in the dreadful countries where this understanding is most needed, then the politics of total collapse have to be understood first.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Understanding

• He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • Hero
  • Calm
  • Dumb

• Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Science
  • Relations
  • Phenomena