Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durant

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

William Shakespeare

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.

William Shakespeare

It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

Leonard Susskind

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

Wait until you see the science that is going to come back from this mission. It's going to know your socks off.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.

Dmitri Mendeleev

When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing atomic weight, an arrangement results from which several general conclusions may be drawn.

Dmitri Mendeleev

If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.

Alexis Carrel

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

Alexis Carrel

It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.

Richard P. Feynman

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Dan Shechtman

Let us advance science to create a better world for all.

Barbara Thompson

LWS is kind of science with an edge.

The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.

Ted Chiang

I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

Ted Cruz

Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.

Brent Spiner

I don't read Science Fiction.

Booth Tarkington

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Brian Aldiss

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Jane Goodall

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

Jane Goodall

Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task.

James Whistler

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

Blaise Pascal

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

Blaise Pascal

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

Blaise Pascal

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

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.

Dean Koontz

Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice but to grow away from the tradition of savagery.