Science Quotes

• Do you trust in your fellow citizens, in a sense that whatever they will have in additional tools they will use in balance more to the good or more to the bad? If you think they will use it more to the bad, you shouldn't do science, you know.

  

  Erwin Neher
  • Trust
  • Balance
  • Citizens

• The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet the data seemed to demand it. ... The story of Werner Heisenberg and his science is the story of the desperate failures and ultimate triumphs of the small band of brilliant physicists who-during an incredibly intense period of struggle with the data, the theories, and each other during the 1920s-brought about a revolutionary new understanding of the atomic world known as quantum mechanics.

  

  David C. Cassidy
  • Nature
  • Understanding
  • Physics

• Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Knowledge
  • Magic
  • Dreams

• The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Study
  • Existence
  • Phenomena

• Science is global, but solution is local.

  

  Ellen J. Kullman
  • Science
  • Solution
  • Global

• Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as issues in philosophy of logic and of language. With respect to modality, I hold the exact opposite: important philosophical problems concerning language have been misconstrued as relating to the content of science and the nature of the world. This is not at all new, but is the traditional nominalist line.

  

  Bastiaan van Fraassen
  • Language
  • Philosophy
  • Problems

• Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Shows
  • Disaster
  • Statistics

• Man lives for science as well as bread.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Wells
  • Scientist

• It's sort of another innovation, probably a good innovation, of Western culture to separate the ideas between science and philosophy, but it's important to remember they weren't always separate realms of inquiry.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Remember
  • Philosophy
  • Innovation

• We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Trust

• Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge that when one thing happens, another thing happens as a result. It's an accumulation of simple patterns. A dog can learn patterns. There is no "why&rdqo"; in those examples. We don't understand why electricity travels. We don't know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Knowledge
  • Simple
  • Understanding

• The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Knowledge
  • Values
  • Observation

• Saying that we should stop nanoscience is tantamount to saying we should stop science.

  

  Harry Kroto
  • Science
  • Nanoscience

• Dogbert: So, Since Columbus is dead, you have no evidence that the earth is round. Dilbert: Look. You can Ask Senator John Glenn. He orbited the earth when he was an astronaut. Dogbert: So, your theory depends on the honesty of politicians. Dilbert: Yes... no, wait.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Earth
  • Waiting
  • Honesty

• We need to be very thoughtful about how we propose to spend the money that NASA does have for space exploration. And we need to be clear that there's the human spaceflight part of NASA, and there's the science space part of NASA, and there's also aeronautics. Those are all very different things that NASA does.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Money
  • Exploration
  • NASA

• Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck-- It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck; But sev'ral years ago I changt my mind, an' now proclaim That luck's a kind uv science--same as any other game.

  

  Eugene Field
  • Game
  • Science
  • Proclaim

• Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Pleasure

• If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the richness of direct experience to produce a science that will serve to connect us to one another, ourselves and the world.

  

  Betty Sue Flowers
  • Experience
  • Science
  • Reconnecting

• If we gutted NASA Earth Science, it wouldn't be NOAA or some other agency that would take the lead. It would be the Chinese and the Europeans and the Japanese.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Earth
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

• You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

  

  Iain Banks
  • History
  • Science

• Bohr’s standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit our empirical knowledge concerning it into our other thinking. All of this other thinking, so far as it concerns the outer world, is active in space and time. If it cannot be fitted into space and time, then it fails in its whole aim and one does not know what purpose it really serves.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Knowledge
  • Research
  • Physics

• As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements are investigated, and that it makes no difference whether it be in numbers, figures, stars, sounds or any other object that the question of measurement arises. I saw consequently that there must be some general science to explain that element as a whole which gives rise to problems about order and measurement, restricted as these are to no special subject matter. This, I perceived was called 'universal mathematics'.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Science
  • Light
  • Stars

• I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Science
  • Contribution
  • Hobby

• Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

  

  James Dyson
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Design

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