Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Henry Lewes

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

George Henry Lewes

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Graham Parker

Sadly, my socks are like snowflakes, no two are exactly alike.

George Herbert

'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'

Jean de la Bruyere

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

Murray Gell-Mann

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of natural science, as revealed in the study of particles and of the cosmos, is allied to the litheness of a merganser diving in a pure Swedish lake, or the grace of a dolphin leaving shining trails at night in the Gulf of California.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Ken Jenkins

I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.

Karl Pearson

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.

Karl Pearson

The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

Karl Marx

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.

Karl Marx

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

Ivan Pavlov

Do not become archivists of facts. Try to penetrate to the secret of their occurrence, persistently search for the laws which govern them.

H. G. Wells

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.

H. G. Wells

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

H. G. Wells

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

H. L. Mencken

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

H. L. Mencken

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

H. L. Mencken

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.

Guglielmo Marconi

In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he teach, that he try to bring the most honest and intelligible account of new knowledge to all who will try to learn.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The theory of our modern technic shows that nothing is as practical as theory.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

They do not think, therefore they are not.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.