Top 1000 Science Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public's need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery solved, good guys winning out over the bad ones. But science, and forensic science, should be more neutral and, thus, more nuanced.

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.

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

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

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.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

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.

The mission of the Ruby Bridges Foundation is to create educational opportunities like science camp that allow children from different racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds to build lasting relationships.

There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

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.

I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

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.

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.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

It's a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do.

Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there's no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email. Every day, I receive several reports of alien sightings, extraterrestrial plans for Earth, and agitated screeds about the reluctance of scientists to take the whole subject seriously.

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.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.

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.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

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

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

My father said I should become a doctor and do science in my spare time, which in retrospect might not have been a bad idea, but I wasn't interested in taking care of people's ills.

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.

I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

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

Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently.

There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There is some evidence that the arts might help you in math and science.