Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Flexner

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

Alva Myrdal

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Sarah Hall

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

Henry Petroski

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

Ram Dass

Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?

Kurt Vonnegut

Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.

Kurt Vonnegut

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

David Bohm

The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever be subjected to experimental proof.

David Bohm

Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.

David Bohm

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Dan Simmons

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Irving Langmuir

This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

Sydney Smith

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

Michael Dorn

But now they have it down to a real science where it's about an hour.

Ray Comfort

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Paul Verhoeven

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

William Shakespeare

The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

Olivia Wilde

I've always been a fan of science fiction.

James Hansen

You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.

Hendrik Poinar

Typically, there's a drive in science to do something just to say you've done it.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.

Annie Jump Cannon

A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

Daniel J. Boorstin

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

D. H. Lawrence

When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

D. H. Lawrence

To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.

D. H. Lawrence

I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.

D. H. Lawrence

One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

D. H. Lawrence

...where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united...