Science Quotes
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I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.
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I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
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The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
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O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?
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I'm not saying that the action/science-fiction genre is bad in itself. I make those films. I'm just saying that the studios have put all their cards on black.
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.
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There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.
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What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.
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The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when Holmes became a specialist in crime.
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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.
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... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.
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The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the ultimate becomes ridiculous. Time and space are excellent examples of this.
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What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? ... wearying himself with climbing upon every ascent, ... bruising himself with continual falls, and at last breaking his neck? And all this, from an imagination that it would be glorious to have the eyes of people looking up at him, and mighty happy to eat, and drink, and sleep, at the top of the highest trees in the kingdom.
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on micro-physics; all other probabilities should be interpreted subjectively, as merely revealing our ignorance about physical details. I have argued against this position, contending that the objectivity of micro-physical probabilities entails the objectivity of macro-probabilities.
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The fact is that secularists are “for” reason and science only to the extent that they don’t lead to religious conclusions; they celebrate free choice only insofar as one chooses against traditional or religiously oriented morality; and they are for democracy and toleration only to the extent that these might lead to a less religiously oriented social and political order. Again, the animus against religion is not merely a feature of the secularist mindset; it is the only feature.
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For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in half, to make it more convenient to hold. He used to boast that he had made Lyell publish the second edition of one of his books in two volumes, instead of in one, by telling him how ho had been obliged to cut it in half. ... his library was not ornamental, but was striking from being so evidently a working collection of books.
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The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world. And yet it is a metaphor.
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I'm a technology person, but I'm not a science person.
