Quotes about science
science moved
I liked science. It was about the only thing that stayed the same wherever we moved. Ellen Klages
science anxiety disease
The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation. Erasmus Darwin
science religion world
The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind. Emily Dickinson
science individual type
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description. Emile Durkheim
science men america
The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind. Ellsworth Huntington
science men mind
Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
science night thinking
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. Henri Poincare
science causes chance
A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.
science
Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.
science technology numbers
Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.
science thanks problem
When the physicists ask us for the solution of a problem, it is not drudgery that they impose on us, on the contrary, it is us who owe them thanks.
science player chess
Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.
science simplicity imagine
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
science issues logic
Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.
science intuition hunches
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
science house stones
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
science literature mouths
I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! Henrik Ibsen
science diversity political
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. Heinrich Heine
science sight historical
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to be there or not, science has put us in the position of having to live without foundations. It was shocking when Nietzsche said this, but today it is commonplace; our historical position-and no end to it is in sight-is that of having to philosophise without 'foundations'. Hilary Putnam
science sanguine microbes
The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. Hilaire Belloc
science reality fire
There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts. Heraclitus
science hands use
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands. Henry Ward Beecher
science biographies huxley
[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you. Henry James
science statistics judgment
Statistics are no substitute for judgment. Henry Clay
science land complexity
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity. Heinz Pagels
science moral helping
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
science organization religion
The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.
science piano composition
A Composition on the Piano Johann Sebastian Bach
science wiser conscience
Conscience is wiser than science. Johann Kaspar Lavater
science moon mercury
I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
science technology mind
Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
science technology ideas
Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
science men age
In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.