Science Quotes
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Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason.
Blaise Pascal
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...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous, or a consistent and regular notation.
William Whewell
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In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
Lord Kelvin
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For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.
Charles B. Rangel -
I attended a high school with more than 4,000 students and met with a guidance counselor only once during my four-year stint. Despite my clear strengths in science and math, my counselor's advice was to pursue a degree in business. A career in engineering was never encouraged nor, in fact, ever mentioned.
Peggy Johnson
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If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.
Albert Einstein
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Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.
Albert Camus
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.
Umberto Eco
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Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
John Clayton
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I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.
Marti Noxon
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Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.
Dorothy Allison
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In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off-putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.
David Twohy
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Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.
Allen Tate
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I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.
Matt Groening
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Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride.
Claude Bernard
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Men study science as god not the God of science.
Adrian Rogers
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At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out.
Dallas Campbell
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The science fiction approach doesn't mean it's always about the future; it's an awareness that this is different.
Neal Stephenson
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I haven't read a lot of science fiction, and I never intend to write it; it seems to happen a little bit inadvertently for me, in that I'm trying to follow people into points in their lives that demand that I investigate the future.
Jennifer Egan
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The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism . . . have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.
E. Haldeman-Julius
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I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.
Megan Smith
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
Alan Lightman
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There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.
David Lee
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My mom and brother are both doctors, and it seems crazy that so many people think science is a mutable idea.
Megan Amram