Famous Quotes & Sayings

Naomi Klein

It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.

Omar N. Bradley

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

Oliver Goldsmith

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

Oliver Goldsmith

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

Oliver Goldsmith

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Aristoteles quidem ait: 'Omnes ingeniosos melancholicos esse.' Aristotle says that all men of genius are melancholy.

Mark Twain

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.

Mark Twain

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

Larry Wall

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Imre Lakatos

The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist of one research programme superceding (overtaking in progress) another. This methodology offers a new rational reconstruction of science.

Harold E. Varmus

There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

Nathan Fillion

I would cancel dialysis to be in the [hopefully upcoming Firefly] movie.

Kate Clinton

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.

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.

Sheri S. Tepper

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

Tobias Smollett

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

Socrates

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

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.

John Milton

Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

John Milton

By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

Norbert Wiener

I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If bowling balls had Afros, then yes, they could be combed without violation of mathematical theorems.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. Maybe that's what really happened to all the water on Mars.