Quotes about science
science thinking trying
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. Albert Einstein
science doubt want
The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.
science intelligent community
Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.
science cracks atoms
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
science discovery taught-us
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
science discovery intuition
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.
science forget lost
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost. Alfred North Whitehead
science half creation
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
science aim particular
The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.
science ideas innovation
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
science enquiry inquiry
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. Alfred Korzybski
science sea land
There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go. Alfred Lord Tennyson
science grows
Science grows and Beauty dwindles.
science circles literature
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. Aldous Huxley
science data language
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.
science hands achievement
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.
science diversity uniforms
Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
science joy doe
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.
science empty schemes
Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.
science mind essentials
But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.
science should-have nuclear
If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
science tools physicist
The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.
science judgement kind
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.
science shoes mind
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
science thinking scientist
No scientist thinks in formulae.
science creative guessing
The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.
science community want
Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.
science discovery joy
The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.
science criticism doe
The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth.
science years fiction
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. A. E. van Vogt
science numbers excellent
Number, the most excellent of all inventions. Aeschylus
science
I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist. Sarah Hall
science
All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment. Kurt Vonnegut