Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Nietzsche

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Joseph Addison

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

Barbara Thompson

The long ones were just devastating. Science stopped.

James Surowiecki

Unfortunately, there is something of a flaw in this idealized picture of the way the scientific community discovers truth. And the flaw is that most scientific work never gets noticed. Study after study has shown that most scientific papers are read by almost no one, while a small number of papers are read by many people.

Ellen Klages

I liked science. It was about the only thing that stayed the same wherever we moved.

Erasmus Darwin

The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

Emily Dickinson

The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

Emile Durkheim

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

Ellsworth Huntington

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

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

David Lee

The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.

Edward Teller

Today's science is tomorrow's technology.

Edward Teller

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Edward Teller

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

Edward Teller

Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the advances of technology. For example, James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the equivalence between mechanical heat and energy.

Hermann von Helmholtz

I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric charges, and opposite electric charges cling to each other.

Hermann von Helmholtz

The most startling result of Faraday's Law is perhaps this. If we accept the hypothesis that the elementary substances are composed of atoms, we cannot avoid concluding that electricity also, positive as well as negative, is divided into definite elementary portions, which behave like atoms of electricity.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

Hermann von Helmholtz

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

Henry Spencer

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

Henry Taube

And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

Henri Poincare

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

Henri Poincare

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.

Henri Poincare

Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.

Henri Poincare

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

Henri Poincare

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.

Henri Poincare

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Henri Poincare

The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.