Top 1200 Experimental Science Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400 years of science, right? I mean, in the 18th century, in the 18th century you could become an expert on any field of science in an afternoon by going to a library, if you could find the library, right?

I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy.

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.

Science can and should inform debate about abortion and the law. But science does not resolve questions of moral value and moral choice.

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.

I don't think that science is complete at all. We don't understand everything, and one can see, within science itself, there are many inconsistencies. We just have to accept that we don't understand.

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the vast interval between the two, which is not belief, but the suspension of judgment." Such, perhaps, was true science in Dr. Fenwick's days. But the true science of our modern times proceeds otherwise; it either denies point-blank, without any preliminary investigation, or sits in the interim, between denial and conviction, and, dictionary in hand, invents new Graeco-Latin appellations for non-existing kinds of hysteria!

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

I guess...on one hand, I spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when I was growing up. But a part of it is I also never felt much of a connection to the world in which I lived while I was growing up, and so, oddly enough, I think I felt a lot more connected to the worlds that I read about in science fiction.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

I read so much science fiction when I was young. I believe science fiction is the genre for exploration and to learn about possibilities via book.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.

Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet.

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science, but they never really got the opportunity?

You have to be loose enough so that when you listen to what's coming, you can follow it. In that sense I am improvising, but I don't think I'm experimenting. I have a problem with the whole term "experimental music."

When you feel you have good although incomplete expertise, start trying things. If it's not working, try something else; maintain an experimental mindset.

[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset.

We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy.

I follow science and common sense. Science says you should eat a variety of foods and eat more fruits and vegetables - I do that.

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.

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

I didn't need to write historical epics, no, or science fiction, though I read a lot of science fiction as a kid and rather liked it. But I didn't have the mentality.

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

This is not rocket science - climate science is very simple. A 12-year-old could probably understand this subject [of climate change].

The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

If you want a dog, go to your local animal shelter and adopt one. It's not rocket science, it's dog science.

The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

An experimental idea doesn't have to be separated from a mainstream context. The really exciting thing is where those two things are together. That's where you can get real change.

Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods we use. When we need to do history, we should do history. When we need to study political science, we should study political science.

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.