Science Quotes
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If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.
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Just as you can't become a marathon runner by watching marathons on TV, likewise for science, you have to go through the thought processes of doing science and not just watch your instructor do it.
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The supporters now, the bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get it supported, they want to know from the start that it will work.
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Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.
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Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce.
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If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
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Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
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Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.
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Oh, I assure you, science is anything but boring.
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When is the right time for anything? Who knows? Living is an art, not a science.
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There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
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I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.
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... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.
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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient.
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It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.
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Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.
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Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.
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Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
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Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
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The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph.
