Science Quotes

• 'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Wrong
  • Documentary

• Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Today
  • Science
  • Something

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and hereafter - if we practice it without fail, we will then attain physical, mental, and spiritual happiness, and our minds will flood towards the Self.

  

  K. Pattabhi Jois
  • Community
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• Science can tell us what can be done in principle, but it is then a matter for public debate as to what should be done. And ultimately, it is a role for politicians to decide the answers.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Done
  • Science

• I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.

  

  John Anderson
  • High
  • Quality
  • Confidence

• Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Science

• Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

  

  Joel Hodgson
  • Science

• The indisputable fact is that nutritional science is the most powerful weapon available to win the war on cancer.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • War
  • Powerful
  • Cancer

• 'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Trying
  • May
  • Nature

• The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Place

• The science of yoga saved my life, and I've seen it save many other lives, no matter how dark and hopeless it might feel for someone, there is a pathway forward towards stability and empowerment ... toward creating a new and more meaningful identity and mission in life.

  

  Brad Willis
  • Yoga
  • Mission
  • Hopeless

• People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us (Joshua 10:13) that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

  

  Martin Luther
  • People
  • Scripture
  • Heavens

• As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Boy

• I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Fiction
  • Films
  • Early

• The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Creativity
  • Same

• Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.

  

  Daniel Nathans
  • Life
  • World
  • Small

• Living is an art, not a science.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Art
  • Science
  • Living

• The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

  

  Dave Barry
  • World
  • Science
  • Logic

• The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Today
  • Science
  • Humanities

• Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Great
  • Nature

• In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in 2009 President Obama was praised for reversing it, even though his decision was arguably just as political.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Political
  • Science
  • Decision

• Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy.

  

  George M. Whitesides
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Faith
  • Achievement
  • Enlightenment

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