Quotes about science
science body matter
The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth. Rene Descartes
science lord masters
And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
science men logic
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason. Thucydides
science men principles
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. Thomas Paine
science inheritance may
Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cooacters can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes in the chromosomes. In a word the cytoplasm may be ignored genetically. Thomas Hunt Morgan
science past years
For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this time next year I expect to have shot past you, and to find you pitching into me for being more Darwinian than yourself. However, you have set me going, and must just take the consequences, for I warn you I will stop at no point so long as clear reasoning will take me further. Thomas Huxley
science men want
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
science common-sense common
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
science facts delusion
It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts...but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.
science too-much possibility
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything...
science views trying
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
science superstitions birth
The birth of science was the death of superstition.
science simple men
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.
science function accounts
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
science technology two-sides
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
science sin blind
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
science common-sense logic
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
science soul temples
No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer. Thomas Browne
science metaphor scientist
Science is all metaphor. Timothy Leary
science opposites statistics
The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation. Thomas Sowell
science years variables
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
science statistics disaster
Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
science statistics term
All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.
science differences different
All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
science men statistics
Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic Robert Kennedy
science matter form
It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form. Robert Grosseteste
science years hearing
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all? Walt Whitman
science leaves-of-grass amazement
O amazement of things-even the least particle!
science age lines
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. Saul Bellow
science healthy fiction
Science fiction is very healthy in its form. Robert Sheckley
science fiction would-be
So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
science fiction critics
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.
science space wish
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. Robert Quillen