Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Poincare

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

Henri Poincare

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Henri Poincare

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.

Henrik Ibsen

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!

Heinrich Heine

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Hilary Putnam

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'.

Hilaire Belloc

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Heraclitus

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Henry James

[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 Clay

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Heinz Pagels

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 cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

Heinz Pagels

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

Johann Sebastian Bach

A Composition on the Piano

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Conscience is wiser than science.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We see only what we know.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

Khalil Gibran

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

Khalil Gibran

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

Jonathan Swift

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels.

Jonathan Swift

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Jonathan Swift

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Olympia Brown

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.