Quotes about science
science magic looks
Science, you don't know, looks like magic. Christopher Moore
science keys psychology
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. Amos Bronson Alcott
science may scientist
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
science logic assumption
SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent. Ambrose Bierce
science substance culture
A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.
science medical-profession humour
HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
science blue two
LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate the wrong way. An interesting fact in the chemistry of international controversy is that at the point of contact of two patriotisms lead is precipitated in great quantities.
science animal path
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
science astronomers conjecture
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.
science two shade
PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.
science giving fool
RADIUM, n. A mineral that gives off heat and stimulates the organ that a scientist is a fool with.
science railroads purpose
RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.
science illustration lovely
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.
science frogs reptiles
FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs
science snakes funeral
ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.
science physicians graves
APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider
science cosmetics arsenic
ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.
science body physicians
BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.
science bowels disorder
DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.
science errors method
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
science phrenology dupes
PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.
science knives elephants
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.
science two white
MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.
science teeth coins
Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coin out of your pocket.
science planning method
To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.
science biographies messengers
In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time. Alice Stewart
science growth sake
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. Alexander Pope
science doubt littles
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
science trying firsts
New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,...
science superficial-knowledge eels
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
science eels library
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!
science creating imagination
Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
science thinking discovery
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.