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"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
Edward Teller"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence."
Louis Pasteur"Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional."
Brian Greene"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
Wernher von Braun"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response."
Arthur M. Schlesinger"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success."
Bruce Feirstein"Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in."
Sally Ride"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
Muriel Rukeyser"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Isaac Asimov"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."
Edwin Powell Hubble"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done."
Robert A. Heinlein"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
Max Planck"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
Will Harvey"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."
Jules Verne"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
Thomas Huxley"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."
Howard Nemerov"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
Carl Sagan"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
George Bernard Shaw"Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion."
Stephen Hawking"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
Isaac Asimov"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."
Stephen Jay Gould"The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth."
Irving Langmuir"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."
Mary Kay Ash"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian."
Elon Musk"Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men."
Jean Rostand"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
Martin Luther King, Jr."Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you."
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar"When I found Freestyle Fellowship, I started getting into the construction of rap. You get better at it the more you do it; you figure out the science and the math behind it."
Chance The Rapper"When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods."
Leon Battista Alberti"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not."
Gertrude Stein"The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor."
Alvin Toffler"Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations."
Frederick Sanger"At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession."
Queen Elizabeth II"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof."
Ashley Montagu"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"Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading."
Maria Montessori"Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium."
Richard Dawkins"The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences."
Friedrich August von Hayek"Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel."
Daniel H. Wilson"You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases."
Elon Musk"Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking."
Deepak Chopra"Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that."
Elon Musk"Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'"
Erwin Chargaff"We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations."
Mae Jemison"In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life."
Julie Payette"We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning."
Mother Angelica"In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives."
Bjarke Ingels"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."
Henri Frederic Amiel"It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more."
Edouard Manet"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
Jacob Bronowski"It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science."
Steven Adler"Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer."
Jamie Zawinski"Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally."
Ulrich Beck"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought."
Walter Gilbert"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
Thomas Huxley"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."
Carl Sagan"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."
George Bernard Shaw"In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs."
Francis Darwin"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability."
William Osler"War is the science of destruction."
John Abbott"Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green? Why is metal a conductor of electricity, and wood is not, but you're more likely to be struck by lightning when standing under a tree? These are questions that require science to answer."
Gza"We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
Carl Sagan"I hope to continue to inspire our nation's youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars."
Ellen Ochoa"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
Galileo Galilei"But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods."
Ivan Pavlov"For a genre that's about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards lately. Nostalgia is what sells best, with readers spending their money on movie tie-in novels and sequels to long-running series."
Nick Sagan"Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys' club."
Ryan Holmes"Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything."
Octavia E. Butler"Politics is the science of urgencies."
Theodore Parker"But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths."
Michael Shermer"Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor."
Emily Post"If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed."
Stephen Hawking"I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe."
Stephen Hawking"What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination. -Jean"
Francois Lyotard"Science grows like a weed every year."
Kary Mullis"Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge."
Stephen Hawking"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."
Will Durant"Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions."
Brian Schmidt"We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate."
C. V. Raman"Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique."
Jared Diamond"The heart of science is measurement."
Erik Brynjolfsson"Life is not an exact science, it is an art."
Samuel Butler"The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity."
Mae Jemison"I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'"
Arunachalam Muruganantham"Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors."
Stephen Jay Gould"When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are."
Kirstie Alley"I am among those who think that science has great beauty."
Marie Curie"The proper study of mankind is the science of design."
Herbert A. Simon"Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world."
Alan Kay"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"Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts."
Hans Eysenck"Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe."
Ricky Gervais"On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation."
Charles Darwin"It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics."
Gabriel Marcel"It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet."
Wernher von Braun"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."
Lewis Thomas"Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life."
Nathan Deal"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."
Margaret Mead"They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt."
Denis Kearney"When you start a company, it's more an art than a science because it's totally unknown. Instead of solving high-profile problems, try to solve something that's deeply personal to you. Ideally, if you're an ordinary person and you've just solved your problem, you might have solved the problem for millions of people."
Brian Chesky"Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different."
Nancy Banks Smith"In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting."
Lord Kelvin"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
Charles Darwin"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."
Hippocrates"Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future."
Ahmed Zewail"It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it."
Richard Dawkins"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute."
J. G. Ballard"Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur."
Michael J. Fox"It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery."
Zahi Hawass"Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures."
Evan Esar"I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun."
Melissa Rosenberg"There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe."
John M. Grunsfeld"Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts."
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan"Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all."
Huston Smith"I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science."
Michio Kaku"Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it."
Anthony Fauci"Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living."
Stephen LaBerge"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."
Martin H. Fischer"People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people."
Charles Kettering"The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease."
Ashley Montagu"Leave the atom alone."
E. Y. Harburg"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Immanuel Kant"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."
Alan Perlis"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
Albert Einstein"Art is I; science is we."
Claude Bernard"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."
Konrad Lorenz"Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species."
Dan Brown"If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth."
E. O. Wilson"Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world."
H. P. Lovecraft"Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin."
Vitruvius"Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game."
Blake Edwards"The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite."
Thomas Sowell"Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development. -Kim Jong"
un"We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival."
Joan Halifax"The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science."
Richard P. Feynman"God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator."
Stephen Hawking"Science isn't just about solving this or that puzzle. It's about understanding how the world works: the whole world from the vastness of the cosmos to the particularity of an individual human life. It's worth thinking about how all the different ways we have to talk about the world manage to fit together."
Sean M. Carroll"The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect."
Neil deGrasse Tyson"Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc."
N. R. Narayana Murthy"Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind."
James Mark Baldwin"If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole."
Arthur Compton"The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert Heinlein's 1942 tale 'Beyond This Horizon.'"
Gregory Benford"The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions."
Woodrow Wilson"The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution."
Kenneth Frazier"What we need is a strong education system that allows creativity to grow and encourages students to be interested in science and technology."
Frances Arnold"Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug."
Neil deGrasse Tyson"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress."
Marcel Proust"Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty."
Adam Smith"Science is nothing but perception."
Plato"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
John Dewey"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
Arthur C. Clarke"Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better."
Bill Nye"Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful."
J. Robert Oppenheimer"Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it."
Camille Paglia"Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this."
Neil deGrasse Tyson"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
H. L. Mencken"Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword."
Rhys Darby"There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind."
Bill Nye"Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is."
Stanley B. Prusiner"Hubris and science are incompatible."
Douglas Preston"Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers."
Julian Assange"Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true."
Steven Spielberg"The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it."
Carl Friedrich Gauss"The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day."
Eric Schmidt"The spending in science and technology need to be to increased."
Atal Bihari Vajpayee"Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money."
Gary Larson"Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets."
Jensen Huang"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
Paul Dirac"Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now."
Bonnie Hammer"Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science."
E. O. Wilson"Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes."
William Gibson"The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace."
Buzz Aldrin"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."
Albert Einstein"Touch a scientist and you touch a child."
Ray Bradbury"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."
Marcus Aurelius"Science is the systematic classification of experience."
George Henry Lewes"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go."
Jim Lovell"Geologists have a saying - rocks remember."
Neil Armstrong"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."
Wilhelm Reich"Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests."
John Polanyi"There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics."
Ben Carson"All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data."
Maurice Allais"Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary."
Tom Frieden"To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness."
Edmund Husserl"I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful."
Michael Shermer"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
Edgar Allan Poe"Art is made to disturb, science reassures."
Georges Braque"Science rules!"
Bill Nye"Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to Professor Antony Hewish and Professor Martin Ryle. At the time, science was still perceived as being carried out by distinguished men."
Jocelyn Bell Burnell"We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity."
Margaret J. Wheatley"You need virtual reality to understand high level science or high level math. It's very helpful to explain third and fourth dimensional things that people are constantly addressing in quantum physics. But, as soon as you're creating an avatar, and you can live and you can start to feel sensations on VR, that has gone too far."
Jaden Smith"Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good."
Noam Chomsky"The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health."
Abraham Maslow"Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that."
Jane Goodall"Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body."
Antonio Damasio"Jurisdictions across the U.S. are snapping up algorithms as tools to help judges make bail and bond decisions. They're being sold as race- and gender-neutral assessments that allow judges to use science in determining whether someone will behave if released from jail pending trial."
John Kennedy"The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy."
Ahmed Zewail"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"That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together."
Duane G. Carey"Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field."
Charles Francis Richter"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"Science does not know its debt to imagination."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"There is no complete theory of anything."
Robert Anton Wilson"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
George Santayana"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
Isaac Asimov"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion."
Arnold H. Glasow"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."
Edmund Hillary"Surgical Anatomy is, to the student of medicine and surgery, the most essential branch of anatomical science, having reference more especially to an accurate knowledge of the more important regions, and consisting in the application of anatomy generally to the practice of surgery."
Henry Gray"It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly."
C. V. Raman"A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal."
L. Ron Hubbard"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
Pope John Paul II"Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery."
Robert Zubrin"Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion."
Leon Kass"Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them."
Paul Samuelson"Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics."
Stephen Hawking"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."
Noam Chomsky"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."
Oscar Wilde"I'm not really smart, but I'm dedicated. I can be good at anything if I love it and dedicate myself. And I love history. I love science. I love music. I love golf. I love learning. I love life."
Bryson DeChambeau"I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance."
David Eagleman"Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference."
Neil deGrasse Tyson"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"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."
John Calvin"The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification."
Thomas Huxley"Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it."
J. Robert Oppenheimer"Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws."
Martin Rees"Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind."
Imre Lakatos"Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science."
Georges Seurat"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
John Polanyi"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."
Paul Valery"Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world."
Jane Howard"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
Russell Baker"There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time."
John D. Barrow"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
Adam Smith"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."
Ralph Waldo Emerson"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
Bertrand Russell"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort."
William Gibson"Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting."
Aaron Ciechanover"It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole."
Dmitri Mendeleev"For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science fiction, our gravitational wave discoveries have had an amazing public impact."
Rainer Weiss"Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out."
Stephen Hawking"There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition."
Rod Serling"Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena."
Michael Shermer"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science."
Claude Bernard"Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only difference being that when their dreams turn to nightmares, we all lose sleep. There can be no trusting the muttering of any prelate when it comes to money."
Howard Jacobson"Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes."
Jonathan Sacks"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."
Benjamin Jowett"People believe that art and science are two distinct realms. It is far from the truth because, if you look at science from a microscope or from a different lens, you can see the beauty in science. It is very artistic. -Kiran Mazumdar"
Shaw"When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her."
Jocelyn Bell Burnell"Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it."
Alton Brown"GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future."
Jack Dangermond"When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes."
W. H. Auden"Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent."
Donella Meadows"I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened."
Jack W. Szostak"I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists."
Jacques Yves Cousteau"The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine."
Jeff Bezos"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
Henry Adams"The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible."
Ray Bradbury"Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness."
James D. Watson"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
Thomas Huxley"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."
Edward Teller"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."
Wernher von Braun"Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft."
Sam Ervin"I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism."
Rupert Sheldrake"I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it."
Abraham Verghese"There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted."
Robert J. Sawyer"We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics."
Katherine Johnson"To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history."
Auguste Comte"Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality."
Linus Pauling"Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided."
Paracelsus"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."
Ivan Pavlov"Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people."
Palmer Luckey"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."
Donald Knuth"Science without conscience is the death of the soul."
Francois Rabelais"The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being."
Rudolf Steiner"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."
Franklin D. Roosevelt"Family business management is a discipline that has evolved from an art into a science. The market for this line of education has been created by the growing recognition of family-run companies that shareholders are demanding greater clarity on issues ranging from succession to the management of wealth and the distribution of profits."
Sanjaya Baru"When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction."
Steven Wright"Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards."
Anthony Fauci"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
Albert Einstein"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"Science fiction in particular is often assumed to be about the future, or about some abstract technological or philosophical idea, or just about 'adventure,' but writers can't build worlds out of nothing. We use bits and pieces of the real world to assemble our fictional ones."
Ann Leckie"Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed."
Charles Babbage"Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine."
Richard Engel"There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate."
Bob Iger"I like to learn. That's an art and a science."
Katherine Johnson"Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans."
Neil deGrasse Tyson"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
Alfred North Whitehead"I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored."
William Shatner"Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them."
Craig Venter"Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass."
Craig Venter"He is so old that his blood type was discontinued."
Bill Dana"We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program."
Tim Holden"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."
Isaac Newton"The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know."
Gaston Bachelard"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."
John von Neumann"Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products."
James Dyson"I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'"
Bill Gates"Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth."
Chuck Berry"Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message."
Charles Vest"Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too."
Hideo Kojima"The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science."
Alton Brown"As a chef, I got into this because I love the creative energy and I love the science, but I also love to feed people and make them happy."
Christina Tosi"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
Edward Abbey"In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement."
Ben Bernanke"In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test."
Adam Savage"I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science."
Joe Biden"Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'"
Temple Grandin"The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah."
Afrika Bambaataa"Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens."
Leonard Susskind"Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism."
Alija Izetbegovic"I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do."
Linus Torvalds"Blitzscaling is what you do when you need to grow really, really quickly. It's the science and art of rapidly building out a company to serve a large and usually global market, with the goal of becoming the first mover at scale. This is high-impact entrepreneurship."
Reid Hoffman"Science at NASA is all about exploring the endless frontier of the Earth and space."
John M. Grunsfeld"Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems."
Kimberly Bryant"Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another."
Thomas Hobbes"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition."
Alan Turing"To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction."
Nawal El Saadawi"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts."
Vitruvius"The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things."
Mario J. Molina"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Henri Poincare"Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game."
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran"Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time."
Robert Lanza"Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years."
Mike Pence"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians."
Henrik Ibsen"In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh."
Neil deGrasse Tyson"Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science."
Jim Inhofe"I've lost my faith in science."
Bette Davis"A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology."
Robert Trout"Surgeon generals are appointed by presidents, but our work isn't about politics. Our highest duty to to the public. Our true guide is science. Our job is to speak the truth about public health, even when it's controversial or perceived as political."
Vivek Murthy"You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing."
Anthony Fauci"Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology."
Bill Nye"Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science."
Blaise Pascal"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve."
Max Planck"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic."
Thomas Szasz"Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty."
John Carmack"No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom."
Dean Ornish"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing."
Thomas Huxley"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
Maria Mitchell"Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all."
Julian Baggini"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Albert Einstein"This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth."
Scott Kelly"Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose."
Marla Gibbs"Our annual school physics trip was always to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, as it's such a good example of Newtonian physics. You can learn about centrifugal force and Newton's first law from the roller coasters, and the Viking long boat is a giant pendulum. It's good for children to understand that science underpins all these brilliant things."
Ben Miller"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
Albert Einstein"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1."
Ernest Rutherford"I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet."
Joan Jett"Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing."
Henry Petroski"The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge."
Dave Ramsey"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
Jacob Bronowski"Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious."
Ada Lovelace"Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result."
Ricky Gervais"Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."
Albert Einstein"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."
Stephen Jay Gould"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."
Horace Walpole"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
Niels Bohr"Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value."
Richard P. Feynman"I'm weird: I like science and math but also like English as well."
Jazz Jennings"In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science."
Martin H. Fischer"The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler."
Edward Teller"Science is magic that works."
Kurt Vonnegut"Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible."
Ray Bradbury"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man."
Edward Thorndike"I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it."
Jonah Lehrer"I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders."
Scott Kelly"If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread."
Neil deGrasse Tyson"The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology. -Kim Jong"
un"Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth."
Jeffrey Kluger"Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss."
Paul Davies"While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner."
Mike Pence"Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10."
Neil Armstrong"Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion."
Bruno Mars"Science is a self-sufficient activity."
Jonathan Miller"Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable."
George Edward Woodberry"When I was much younger, my siblings and I would routinely tune in to watch 'Bill Nye the Science Guy' on PBS. He was a fascinating instructor bent on helping kids achieve a basic understanding of science. When he engaged in politics, it was only very briefly if at all."
Ben Domenech"If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend."
Daniel Dennett"Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions."
Joseph Crowley"There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics."
Norman Foster"I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man."
Renato Dulbecco"There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science."
Louis Pasteur"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic."
Ursula K. Le Guin"Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin"The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden."
Pierre Bourdieu"The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all."
Fidel Castro"Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems."
Frances Arnold"Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'"
Max Planck"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
Unknown"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
Galileo Galilei"I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness."
Lois Lowry"Science is always inquiring."
Thabo Mbeki"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"Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty."
James D. Watson"Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation."
Mark Walport"When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night."
Marissa Mayer"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors."
J. Robert Oppenheimer"The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment."
C. V. Raman"I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications."
J. Cole"I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science."
Sara Paretsky"I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It's corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists."
Sydney Brenner"Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and in the case of science, through experiment). To build on the past rather than endlessly relive it. That's what separates us from the beasts."
Seth Shostak"I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on."
John Hurt"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."
Edward Thorndike"You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour."
Helen Sharman"By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the future may bring, science fiction can do what Dickens and Sinclair did: make real the consequences of social injustice or human folly."
James Gunn"When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."
Denis Diderot"People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and technology have very little experience with liberal arts and the traditions of a liberal democracy."
Toomas Hendrik Ilves"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."
William Blake"Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience."
Mae Jemison"There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine."
Nikola Tesla"I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff."
Tom Felton"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."
Karl Popper"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
Irving Babbitt"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things."
Elbert Hubbard"Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom."
Nikola Tesla"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
Edsger Dijkstra"What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on."
Jacques Yves Cousteau"And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that."
Duane G. Carey"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."
Walter Gilbert"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
Albert Einstein"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."
Gregory Bateson"And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact."
Lisa Joy"Hip-hop is substance. It's social. It's science - that's what it started off as. We have fun, and we still having fun; ain't nothing wrong with fun, but we need that social, we need that substance, we need that science, and we need that spiritual."
Lecrae"Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not."
Viola Davis"The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true."
Phillip E. Johnson"Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow."
Neil deGrasse Tyson"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."
William Blake"Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science."
Robert Lanza"Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing."
Sally Ride"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art."
William Bernbach"The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing."
Edward Tufte"My preparation is about precision. It is a science."
Conor McGregor"What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see."
Louie Schwartzberg"Computer science is not just for smart 'nerds' in hoodies coding in basements. Coding is extremely creative and is an integral part of almost every industry."
Reshma Saujani"Science is not finished until it is communicated."
Mark Walport"Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science."
Ada Lovelace"Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp."
Nancy Reagan"If everybody has to take biology and chemistry, they can take computer science. Computer science is a more useful skill right now than a lot of other things that people are learning at school."
Susan Wojcicki"Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why."
Sidney Hillman"We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown."
Ahmed Zewail"You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will."
Billy Burke"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."
Isaac Asimov"Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago."
Paul Samuelson"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
Barbara W. Tuchman"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature."
Martin H. Fischer"Statistics is the grammar of science."
Karl Pearson"Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow."
Heinrich Rohrer"Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'"
Dave Parnas"We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth."
Kenneth R. Miller"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly."
Linus Pauling"If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos."
Robert Quillen"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
Albert Einstein"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
Carl Sagan"Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it."
Karen Armstrong"My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others."
Herbert A. Simon"I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized."
Stephen Jay Gould"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach."
Aleister Crowley"Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities."
Lisa Randall"Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break."
Earl Wilson"We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness."
Michio Kaku"It's not rocket science. It's social science."
Clement Mok"Astrobiology is the science of life in the universe. It's an attempt to scientifically deal with the question of whether or not we're alone in the universe, looking at the past of life, the present of life, and the future of life. It's an interdisciplinary study incorporating astronomy, biology, and the Earth sciences."
David Grinspoon"What use could the humanities be in a digital age? University students focusing on the humanities may end up, at least in their parents' nightmares, as dog-walkers for those majoring in computer science. But, for me, the humanities are not only relevant but also give us a toolbox to think seriously about ourselves and the world."
Nicholas Kristof"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."
Marie Curie"To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions."
Sebastian Thrun"I'm one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life."
Jocelyn Bell Burnell"If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done."
Christa McAuliffe"Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system."
Rupert Sheldrake"You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media."
James Hansen"The science of being healthy is well-known. It is not esoteric. There are no magic bullets. If you want to live a long life, we've known the answers for more than a hundred years. It's a wide-ranging diet with as much fruit and veg as you can stuff into yourself, and plenty of exercise. It doesn't even matter what kind of exercise."
Alice Roberts"Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology."
Neil deGrasse Tyson"It's a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do."
Scott Kelly"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
Stephen Leacock"Experience by itself is not science."
Edmund Husserl"Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it."
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam"The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge."
Thomas Berger"Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy."
Nicholas Stern"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
Bertrand Russell"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics."
Heinrich Heine"I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads."
George Santayana"All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon."
Roger Bacon"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more."
Carl Jung"Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history."
John Coleman"Science fiction is what we point to when we say it."
Damon Knight"Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves."
Werner Heisenberg"Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science."
Anthony Fauci"Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions."
Vera Rubin"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature."
Polykarp Kusch"Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'"
Martin Rees"Economists agree about economics - and that's a science - and they disagree about economic policy because that's a value judgment... I've had profound disagreements on policy with the famous Milton Friedman. But, on economics, we agree."
Franco Modigliani"Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century."
Freeman Dyson"In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science."
Freeman A. Hrabowski III"In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology."
Shimon Peres"Based on the science, you can make somewhat clear statements: The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep without impairment is zero."
Matthew Walker"The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel."
John Glenn"Baking is both an art and a science."
Sherry Yard"Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."
Henri Poincare"I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis."
Henry Mintzberg"Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back."
Bill Nye"Science is organized knowledge."
Herbert Spencer"One can not impede scientific progress."
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad"Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems."
Rene Descartes"I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God."
Sean M. Carroll"Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction."
Jimi Hendrix"The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational."
Helen Sharman"Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields."
Steve Jobs"For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs."
Rupert Sheldrake"Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision."
Marion Zimmer Bradley"The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin"People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones."
Donald Knuth"I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense of science, physics, engineering, space travel... all those great things. Maths is a backbone for it."
Matt Haig"Pitching is both an art and a science."
Max Scherzer"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
Walter Lippmann"This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects."
Friedrich August von Hayek"Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control."
Martin Luther King, Jr."There are no shortcuts in evolution."
Louis D. Brandeis"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
Hippocrates"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics."
Bertrand Russell"Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc."
Friedrich Engels"One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'"
Nathan Myhrvold"That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization."
Charles E. Wilson"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."
Helen Keller"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce."
John F. Kennedy"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."
Robert A. Heinlein"Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse. -Jean"
Francois Lyotard"For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space."
Vitruvius"The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues."
Michael Behe