Quotes about science
science men literature
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. John Henry Newman
science shrinking mysterious
The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking. John Desmond Bernal
science birth certain
We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.
science would-be research
Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.
science men atmosphere
The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.
science essence long
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
science men animal
Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and general order. And what is strange about that? All creatures are involved in the life of all others, consequently every species... all nature is in a perpetual state of flux. Every animal is more or less a human being, every mineral more or less a plant, every plant more or less an animal... There is nothing clearly defined in nature. John Dewey
science religion christ
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. John Calvin
science lasts poet
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. John B. S. Haldane
science-and-religion truce
There can be no truce between science and religion.
science two use
A discussion between Haldane and a friend began to take a predictable turn. The friend said with a sigh, 'It's no use going on. I know what you will say next, and I know what you will do next.' The distinguished scientist promptly sat down on the floor, turned two back somersaults, and returned to his seat. 'There,' he said with a smile. 'That's to prove that you're not always right.'
science progress culture
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception. Johan Huizinga
science errors progress
science progresses by trial and error, and when it is forbidden to admit error there can be no progress. Joan Robinson
science design desire
In history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain -- that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
science men giving
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine. Frank Lloyd Wright
science joy curiosity
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion. John Burroughs
science statistics ratios
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios. Logan Pearsall Smith
science members academy
As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy John F. Kennedy
science rejection skepticism
Science is the search for truth. Linus Pauling
science world scientist
There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.
science trying sodium
I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.
science games trying
Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.
science giving want
The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do. Lindsay Wagner
science order fragments
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. Leo Tolstoy
science names gnats
'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied. Lewis Carroll
science men religion
Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it. Joseph Wood Krutch
science animal fit
If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.
science technology men
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.
science light giving
There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations which do not explain anything; and explanations which obscure everything. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
science differences well-known
Almost everyone... seems to be quite sure that the differences between the methodologies of history and of the natural sciences are vast. For, we are assured, it is well known that in the natural sciences we start from observation and proceed by induction to theory. And is it not obvious that in history we proceed very differently? Yes, I agree that we proceed very differently. But we do so in the natural sciences as well. Karl Popper
science principles conclusion
There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in principle be refuted, by falsifying some of the conclusions which can be deduced from them.
science hands demand
But it is certainly not possible to insist on one hand that the formalism is complete and to insist on the other hand that its application to 'the actual' actually demands a step which cannot be derived from it.
science way scientific-method
It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification.