Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dixie Lee Ray

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

Brian Greene

We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

Brian Greene

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Brian Greene

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Archilochus

Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.

Barbara Kingsolver

Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.

Baruch Spinoza

Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

Auguste Comte

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Auguste Comte

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Arthur Koestler

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

Arthur Koestler

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

Arthur Koestler

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Scripps is a science institute. We don't want to be suing the county.

Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.

Democritus

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

Democritus

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

Democritus

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Denis Diderot

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

Edgar Allan Poe

... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

Elbert Hubbard

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

Elbert Hubbard

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Aristotle

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

Aristotle

The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived.

Aristotle

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Aristotle

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

Aristotle

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

Aristotle

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

Aristotle

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

Aristotle

Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.