Top 1200 Modern Science Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

I did Call of Duty Modern Warfare as Gaz, then I did Ghost in Modern Warfare 2, which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games.

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.

The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.

The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is one of the absurdities developed from studies in this field that has long since been discarded by science. The ideas of the phrenologist Gall, however ridiculous they may now seem in the light of a century's progress, were nevertheless destined to become metamorphosed into the modern principles of cerebral localization.

A modern Woman is not necessarily...s omeone who just buys expensive stuff... ...a modern Woman is someone who buys intelligently.

Modern girls are much more informed than we were. Modern girls seem to know more and there is openness.

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

Science is the only thing that disproves science, and it does it all the time.

At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out.

Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.

It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has nearly always found that the mathematics. . . required. . . had already been worked out by pure mathematicians for their own amusement. . . . The moral for statesmen would seem to be that, for proper scientific "planning", pure mathematics should be endowed fifty years ahead of scientists.

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicity is the core of scientific beauty. Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math.

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.

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

More than ever before, in our country, this is the age of the individual. Endowed with the accumulated knowledge of centuries, armed with all the instruments of modern science, he is still assured personal freedom and wide avenues of expression so that he may win for himself, his family and his country greater material comfort, ease and happiness; greater spiritual satisfaction and contentment.

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. They meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. To try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. In attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. They took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

The politics is far harder than the science. And even if we accept the science we have a big issue of how to deal with it.

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

But concerning vision alone is a separate science formed among philosophers, namely, optics, and not concerning any other sense ... It is possible that some other science may be more useful, but no other science has so much sweetness and beauty of utility. Therefore it is the flower of the whole of philosophy and through it, and not without it, can the other sciences be known.

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.

I now believe that the universe was brought into existence by an infinite Intelligence. I believe that this universe's intricate laws manifest what scientists have called the Mind of God. I believe that life and reproduction originate in a divine Source. Why do I believe this, given that I expounded and defended atheism for more than a half century? The short answer is this: this is the world picture, as I see it, that has emerged from modern science.

Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture

My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat--a boat which, to revert to Neurath's figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy.

I did 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare' as Gaz, then I did Ghost in 'Modern Warfare 2,' which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of computer games.

Being a fan of science fiction, I collect a lot of science fiction art work and so if you go to my house there's like a library and you just geek out on science fiction material. A lot of the colony worlds specifically are built as a melting pot of different societies, because the world is at a point where there are only two zones that are left inhabitable.

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be.

I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.