Science Quotes
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I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.
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The first objection to Darwinism is that it is only a guess and was never anything more. It is called a "hypothesis," but the word "hypothesis," though euphonious, dignified and high-sounding, is merely a scientific synonym for the old-fashioned word "guess." If Darwin had advanced his views as a guess they would not have survived for a year, but they have floated for half a century, buoyed up by the inflated word "hypothesis." When it is understood that "hypothesis" means "guess," people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.
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Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
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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.
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We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.
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But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which never works in vain, has destined those parts to various uses, so that the various faculties of the mind seem to require different portions of the cerebrum and cerebellum for their production.
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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.
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In Vedic times, we had the great quest for the unknown. We did wonderful things; we celebrate our past vigyaan and our wonderful heritage of science and technology of the Vedic times.
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The government is right to recognise the importance of science and technology, but I think it is a mistake to ringfence funds.
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For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.
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With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy.
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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
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We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading nature of that which only superficially seems to be obvious. It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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The gift of professional maturity comes only to the psychologist who knows the history of his science.
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I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
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All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
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Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.
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I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.
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"Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.
