Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Shanks

In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

Michael Shermer

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Michael Shermer

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Michael Shermer

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

Theodore Kaczynski

My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.

Thales

I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.

Terry Pratchett

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

Terry Pratchett

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

Margaret Mead

most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the situation rather than surrendering himself to the situation, as one must in studying human beings as they actually live.

Margaret Mead

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

Michael Faraday

Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.

Michael Faraday

Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.

Michael Faraday

I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.

Michael Faraday

I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.

Ray Bradbury

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.

Ray Bradbury

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

The mind is an evolved computer program.

James Black

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

James Anthony Froude

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

James Anthony Froude

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

Jacques Monod

Je cherche à comprendre.

Jacques Monod

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

Henry A. Wallace

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Henry Adams

My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.

Henry A. Kissinger

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

Henry David Thoreau

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Henry Ford

Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry.

Plato

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Mary E. Pearson

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.

Martin Rees

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.