Science - Quotes & Sayings

When the Bitcoin white paper emerged in 2008, it was completely revolutionary. The amount of concepts that had to come together in just the right way - computer science, cryptography, and economic incentives - was astonishing.

Fred Ehrsam

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.

Laurel Clark

All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.

Laeta Kalogridis

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

Martin Feldstein

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Wilhelm Dilthey

Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.

Elias James Corey

Chemical compounds of carbon can exist in an infinite variety of compositions, forms and sizes. The naturally occurring organic substances are the basis of all life on Earth, and their science at the molecular level defines a fundamental language of that life.

Elias James Corey

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

Philip Greenspun

Man lives for science as well as bread.

William James

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Malala Yousafzai

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Charles Kettering

You may take this as a general and central principle in criticism: that all science, literature or song, which recognizes conscious life as the ruling principle of the universe, is Christian.

Edward Everett Hale

The quest for a quantum gravity is one of the greatest unsolved problems in all of science.

Michio Kaku

I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Aleister Crowley

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

Deepak Chopra

I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.

Deepak Chopra

Science is but an image of the truth.

Francis Bacon

Philosophy was once considered science.

P. J. O'Rourke

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Max Planck

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

Woodrow Wilson

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

E. O. Wilson

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Simone Weil

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Henry Adams

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Alfred Hitchcock

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

Adam Savage

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

Bob Iger

There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of origins; they are not allowed to hear other points of view; they are taught incorrectly about science and taught that evolution is fact.

Ken Ham

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.

Ken Ham

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

John Ruskin

Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man's reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose.

Robert Kennedy

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

Gillian Anderson

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Terry Pratchett

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

Terry Pratchett

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

Terry Pratchett

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Terry Pratchett

The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.

Bernard Williams

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Thomas Huxley

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Elbert Hubbard

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.

Clint Smith

Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.

Jim Brown

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Wernher von Braun

Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.

Seth Berkley