Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Huxley

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Thomas Huxley

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Browne

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Timothy Leary

Science is all metaphor.

Thomas Sowell

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

Thomas Sowell

Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.

Thomas Sowell

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

Thomas Sowell

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.

Thomas Sowell

All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.

Robert Kennedy

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

Robert Grosseteste

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.

Walt Whitman

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Walt Whitman

O amazement of things-even the least particle!

Saul Bellow

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

Robert Sheckley

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Robert Sheckley

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.

Robert Sheckley

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

Robert Quillen

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Sarah Zettel

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Sandra Postel

Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call for a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed.

Richard M. Nixon

Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

Richard Dawkins

It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?

Robin Williams

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

Tony Visconti

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

Tony Snow

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

Tony Snow

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Rudyard Kipling

For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

Samuel Johnson

The roads of science are narrow, so that they who travel them, must wither follow or meet one another...

Samuel Johnson

I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but angry he is, no doubt; and he is loath to be angry at himself.

Samuel Johnson

There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be well received in female assemblies, must qualify himself by a total rejection of all that is serious, rational, or important; must consider argument or criticism as perpetually interdicted; and devote all his attention to trifles, and all his eloquence to compliment.

Samuel Johnson

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.