Quotes with science

  • A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
  • In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
  • The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.
  • Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
  • The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
  • The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
  • In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
  • Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
  • Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
  • Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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  • Stephen Leacock Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • S. Leacock Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Robin George Collingwood A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • Anatoly Karpov Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
    Anatoly Karpov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1951 - 1951)
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  • Henry Fielding Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Joseph Addison Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • George Henry Lewes Science is the systematic classification of experience.
    George Henry Lewes
    English philosopher and critic (1817 - 1878)
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  • Bill Watterson That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • E. B. White The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • W. H. Auden ''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Jean Rostand A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Carl Sagan A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
    Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carl Sagan A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Nye After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Ann Druyan All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Gustave Flaubert All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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