Science Quotes
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I work out in the Caribbean for half the year, playing a detective who's really into science. Anybody who knows me will tell you that's a dream come true. But it's tough for my family. We only get to see each other every two and a half to three weeks.
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Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent that we could not survive. The smallest bit placed on one's arm would produce a blister which it would need months to heal.
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Every one of these claims embodies a metaphysical assumption, and science, since its very method presupposes them, could not possibly defend them without arguing in a circle. Their defense is instead a task for metaphysics, and for philosophy more generally; and scientism is shown thereby to be incoherent.
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Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
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One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
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I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
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Everything is always in trouble at the frontier. Any science that is not in this kind of trouble is dead.
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Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.
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From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks
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The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.
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Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.
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We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.
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And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.
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Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
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James Bridenstine is a climate denier with no scientific background who has made a career out of ignoring science.
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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.
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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.
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Intelligence is not a science.
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I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.
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My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.
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There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
