Science Quotes
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Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.
Sidney Hillman -
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
John Ruskin
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...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.
William James -
The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
William James -
"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says that scientific theories shouldn't postulate supernatural entities; the metaphysical thesis says that no such entities exist. In this debate, God is the supernatural entity at issue; the question isn't whether science gets to talk about mathematical entities if Platonism is correct.
Elliott Sober -
Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.
Willis R. Whitney -
Einstein’s 1905 paper came out and suddenly changed people’s thinking about space-time. We’re again in the middle of something like that. When the dust settles, time—whatever it may be—could turn out to be even stranger and more illusory than even Einstein could imagine.
Carlo Rovelli -
Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
Stephen Jay Gould
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William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.
Adrian Desmond -
I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.
William DeVries -
All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
Thomas Sowell -
The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
Carl Pomerance -
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 -
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.
Kate Wilhelm
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It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.
Hans Asperger -
Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.
Natalie Angier -
Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.
Carl Linnaeus -
In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.
Michael Shanks -
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed to within a few acres; its mountains and craters have been measured to within a few yards; while on the earth's surface there are 30,000,000 square kilometres (sixty times the extent of France), upon which the foot of man has never trod, which the eye of man has never seen.
Camille Flammarion -
Science is the locomotive that drives our civilization.
Nicholas Metropolis
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Each one was a hero. Their contribution to science and space exploration will never be forgotten.
Jean Chretien -
Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.
Richard Feynman -
But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.
Richard Feynman -
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar