Science Quotes
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Oh, I assure you, science is anything but boring.
Ben Miller -
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
Thomas Sowell
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History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges -
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.
George Fownes -
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
George Bernard Shaw -
There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?
Audrey Hepburn -
This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
Richard Feynman -
Happiness hates the timid. So does science.
Eugene O'Neill
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Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
Thomas Nagel -
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
John Ruskin -
How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.
Seneca the Younger -
The wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
Ray Bradbury -
The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.
Richard Feynman
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Richard Feynman -
The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.
Evan Esar -
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, 'cause it seems so mythological, and seems so arbitrary; and then on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
Steve Martin -
Science can make a heart beat. But it can’t make it race.
Beth Revis -
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.
Marcel Proust -
Science is advanced by proposing and testing hypothesis, not by declaring questions unsolvable.
Nick Matzke
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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.
Rick Smolan -
Science can be useful, or it can just get in the way.
Karl King -
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
Richard Feynman -
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton