Science Quotes
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The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
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The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory of relativity, as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory is a fallacy. The theory that ether does not exist, and that gravity is not a force but a property of space can only be described as a crazy vagary, a disgrace to our age.
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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.
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This is not rocket science - climate science is very simple. A 12-year-old could probably understand this subject of climate change.
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Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about the true limits of personal responsibility.
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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Even in the best times, managing science has been compared to herding cats; it is not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all.
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Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.
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I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
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Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run; and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
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Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll agree that it is high time to agitate less and build more. Here is a plan whereby the automobile industry of America can build a magnificent "Appian Way" from New York to San Francisco, having it completed by May 1, 1915 and present it to the people of the United States.
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Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.
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England and all civilised nations stand in deadly peril of not having enough to eat. As mouths multiply, food resources dwindle. Land is a limited quantity, and the land that will grow wheat is absolutely dependent on difficult and capricious natural phenomena... I hope to point a way out of the colossal dilemma. It is the chemist who must come to the rescue of the threatened communities. It is through the laboratory that starvation may ultimately be turned into plenty... The fixation of atmospheric nitrogen is one of the great discoveries, awaiting the genius of chemists.
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The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.
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Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.
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It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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In this sense, we should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.
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The science of religion is one science within philosophy; indeed it is the final one. In that respect it presupposes the other philosophical disciplines and is therefore a result.
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Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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I'm a real nerd for science. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson and 'Cosmos' and all that.
