Science Quotes
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Edsger Dijkstra
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When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.
Mario J. Molina
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There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
Kenneth R. Miller
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I studied science and journalism at the University of Colorado and then got interested in experimental film there and started doing my own films.
Eric Darnell
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Avoid the spectacle of technology and instead focus on technology and science solving real problems.
Om Malik
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Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Jane Howard
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Science fiction is not formulaic.
Octavia E. Butler
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Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means.
Albert Einstein
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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
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My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .
M. Carey Thomas
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I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.
Mads Mikkelsen
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Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.
Charles Jencks
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Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
Mary Baker Eddy
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The science, which teaches arts and handicraftsIs merely science for the gaining of a living;But the science which teaches deliverance from worldly existence,Is not that the true science?
Nagarjuna
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Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section. This may be called the "Principle of the Golden Spike." Then stratigraphical nomenclature can be forgotten and we can get on with the real work of stratigraphy, which is correlation and interpretation.
D. V. Ager
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I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.
Jose Saramago
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One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
Paul Wolfowitz
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There is a history of thinking about space science from an environmental ethics perspective. And part of what I want to do is turn that back and use that experience to see if it reflects how we think about the Earth.
David Grinspoon
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
Paul Valery
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Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.
D. H. Lawrence
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I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
Sally Ride
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I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
Elizabeth Moon
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I consider one of the most important duties of any scientist the teaching of science to students and to the general public.
Isaac Asimov