Science Quotes
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To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.
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There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
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It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.
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Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.
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The history of the development of mechanics is quite indispensable to a full comprehension of the science in its present condition. It also affords a simple and instructive example or the processes by which natural science generally is developed.
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
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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.
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Science can make a heart beat. But it can’t make it race.
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Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
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I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
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I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.
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The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
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As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.
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Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.
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Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain the one absolute certainty that we are over in the presence of an Infinite, Eternal Energy from which all things proceed.
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I don't know the science behind climate change. I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it's man-made or not.
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What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.
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We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.
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In summoning even the wisest of physicians to our aid, it is probably that he is relying upon a scientific "truth", the error of which will become obvious in just a few years' time.
