Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Miller

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

We've got a long way to go to get to the science orbit.

Cynthia Kenyon

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

Tyler Cowen

Throwing more science at things isn't always the answer.

I've been doing work on my science project.

We're going to be able to see things we've never seen before and do science never done before.

I'm ecstatic. I think it's a win for science, a win for students and a win for the state of Ohio.

Martin Chalfie

Indeed, we often mark our progress in science by improvements in imaging.

Seth McClung

It's my birthday, too. I'd like to talk to you more about the science of pitching." ()

Jean Chretien

Each one was a hero. Their contribution to science and space exploration will never be forgotten.

John Pierce

This is what we do. We put together different sciences and technologies to make things.

Kenneth Miller

If you use scripture as science, you're not elevating scripture, you're profaning it.

Alastair Reynolds

I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it.

Ernst Mach

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

Ernst Mach

Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.

Ernst Mach

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Ernst Mayr

It is curious how often erroneous theories have had a beneficial effect for particular branches of science.

Ernst Mayr

Two forms or species are sympatric, if they occur together, that is if their areas of distribution overlap or coincide. Two forms (or species) are allapatric, if they do not occur together, that is if they exclude each other geographically. The term allopatric is primarily useful in denoting geographic representatives.

Ernest Rutherford

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.

Ernest Rutherford

Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.

Ernest Rutherford

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

Ernest Rutherford

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

I want to do science fiction with dark stories.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Harry Shearer

I was a Political Science major.

Fred Hoyle

Science is prediction, not explanation.

Fred Hoyle

A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

Fred Hoyle

Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.]

Fred Hoyle

A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics.

Frank Herbert

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

George Henry Lewes

Science is not addressed to poets.

George Henry Lewes

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.