Quotation Explorer - 'Science'

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. - Charles Darwin
I nodded, trying to imagine the very particular sadness of a vanished childhood yogurt now found only in France. It was a very special sort of sadness, individual, and in its inability to induce sympathy, in its tuneless spark, it bypassed poetry and entered science. - Lorrie Moore
Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak. - Werner Heisenberg
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. - T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish
I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. - Oscar Wilde
Science, you don't know, looks like magic. - Christopher Moore
Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. - Rod Serling
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. - Bernard Berenson
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing. - Victor Hugo
Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death. - Santosh Kalwar
Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results. - Franz Kafka
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible. - Paul A.M. Dirac
Science is the record of dead religions. - Oscar Wilde
The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine. - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
Your Ancestors Called it Magic, but You Call it Science. I Come From a Land Where They Are One and the Same. - Thor Odinson
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. - Will Durant
Science is a careful investigation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity. - Louis Pasteur
I like the confusion you get between science and religion that’s where belief lies and art as well. - Damien Hirst
Because God is a rational being and the universe is his personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting increased human comprehension. This is the key to many intellectual undertakings, among them, the rise of science. - Rodney Stark
The challenge of elucidating living processes -- including consciousness and all its baggage which we bundle together as 'the human spirit' -- is only one example of a challenge where hard work is paying off and science does not need to accept the false explanations peddled by religions. - Peter Atkins
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. - J. Robert Oppenheimer
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification. - Karl R. Popper
She was never going to get used to how much the Faeries seem to stare at her, as if dissecting her and examining the little pieces inside her like a science project.~Ever Fire: A Dark Faerie Tale #2 - Alexia Purdy
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity. - Stephen Jay Gould
Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist. - Lise Meitner
Poetry is the science, the exact science, of feeling. - Marty Rubin
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. - Carl Sagan
La science est une nouvelle religion et la désinfection est son eau bénite. - George Bernard Shaw
It is far easier to move mountain than to move science by this one degree. We have the power to move mountain, if we have faith that the mountain can be moved. It is now that our faith is tested. The future of humankind hangs in the balance. - Compton Gage
Science has proven that subatomic particles can exist in two places at once. Since we are all made up of these particles, then this simple fact should drastically re-define every limitation that you think you have. - Gary Hopkins
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science. - Bill Gaede
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say. - G.K. Chesterton
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. - Richard Feynman
Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb) - Richard Dawkins
As we all know, blinking lights means science. - Joss Whedon
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. - Woodrow Wilson
Art is I; science is we. - Claude Bernard
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast. - Julien Torma
The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense. - Kedar Joshi
Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow - Stewart Stafford
Science transcends the personal domain of beliefs. You can see the grace of Science in every direction of the human universe. - Abhijit Naskar
A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content. - Theodore Sturgeon
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 universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason. - Immanuel Kant
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. - Peter Borden
Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it. - William Gurstelle
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining. - Bill Gaede
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
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste. - William A. Smith
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions. - Oscar Wilde
My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.{Commenting about 's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.} Jean-Baptiste Biot - Louis Pasteur
I think it's not particularly necessary to lead a religious life. People progress just as well in music, or art, or math or science or gardening or whatever. It all seems to work as well and the process is good. - Jim Henson
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. - Bertrand Russell
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. - Steven Pinker
Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't. - Marcelo Gleiser
Only art acknowledges the individual. Science and history ignore him. - Marty Rubin
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. - Victor J. Stenger
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Leacock
Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science. - Debasish Mridha
Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride. - Claude Bernard
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
Facts and science without the presence of wisdom and reason are worth a little less than nothing, while wisdom and reason without the presence of facts and science are worth far more than people without wisdom and reason are capable to expect. - Hasse Jerner
Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations. - James Rozoff
Unless humanity gives top priority to the space science, there will be no future for the humanity! - Mehmet Murat ildan
NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ - Stephen Colbert
There is no such thing as Hardcore Philosophy or Hardcore Science. Real Science and Real Philosophy do not destroy each other, they simply fulfil and enrich each other. - Abhijit Naskar
When superstitions enter the world of imagination, then intelligence and science become fiction. - Debasish Mridha
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. - Barbara W. Tuchman
Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. - Noam Chomsky
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?
Every religion which does not concern itself with Science is mere tradition, and that is not the essential. Therefore science, education and civilization are most important necessities for the full religious life.
I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. - Charles Lindbergh
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. - Oscar Wilde
Think of it." Now he is speaking to you, no one but you. "It may not matter what we want for science, or what we think is ethical. All we must do is provide the right environment, and let the heart do what it desires. The heart wants to beat. - Stephen Kiernan
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all. - Isaac Asimov
All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe! - Mehmet Murat ildan
You can't understand depth of science, unless you challenge the published scientific data. - Amit Ray
It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character.""I don't even know what that is!""Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction. - Girl vs Monster
Science fiction is when we see into the future of our planet, fantasy is when we believe humanity will survive. - Kaz Lefave
If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions! - Mehmet Murat ildan
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle. - Mahatma Gandhi
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.
Our very existence refuses your laws andyour science, your religions and yourphilosophies. - B.E. Scully
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. - George Washington
From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power. - Donna J. Haraway
Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it. - Felix Alba-Juez
What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. - Stephen Hawking
Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement. - Bertrand Russell
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. - Voltaire
Coincidences are a true paradox... on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities--seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren't there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences. - Josh Tenenbaum
Memorizing and regurgitating are not science. Real science is a constant investigation of the unknown. - Abhijit Naskar
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. - Nikola Tesla
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper. - George Pólya
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. - Edwin Hubble
The chaos in me is the chaos in you. Like the love in you is the love in me. So maybe we’re both a little crazy. Enough to believe we’re found where dreams are born and beneath our faults remain a science, where you and I will run away and leave nothing behind. - Robert M. Drake
Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. - Cyril Ponnamperuma
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. - Brian W. Aldiss
[W]hen one has a religious experience, what is 'true' is only that one has had that experience, not that its contents convey anything about reality. To determine that, one needs a way to verify the contents of a revelation, and that means science. - Jerry A. Coyne
Good science fiction starts with a question "what if...? - Franklin Clermont
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. - Albert Einstein
There's nothing more exciting than science. You get all the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention. Science has it all.
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. - Henri Poincare
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. - David O. McKay
["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn. - Arthur C. Clarke
Science gives an exact photograph of the world, but it lacks an essential dimension of reality. - Alija Izetbegović
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking. - Albert Einstein
At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this! - Mehmet Murat ildan
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. - Mark Twain
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. - Ashley Montague
Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land. - Leonardo da Vinci
The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist. - Jonathan Auxier
Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a science fiction novel emerges from the cosmic mix. - Yvonne Coleman
Al-Qur'an is not a book of Science, ‘S-C-I-E-N-C-E’ but a book of Signs ‘S-I-G-N-S - Zakir Naik
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. - Louis Pasteur
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. - Carl Sagan
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925. - Frederick Lewis Donaldson
A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion. - Zack W. Van
Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man. - Winston S. Churchill
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. - Henry Fielding
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. - Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge is beautiful; science is amazing. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt. - Lawrence M. Krauss
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
The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
…all that goes under the name of science is not necessarily scientific, and that all that goes under the name of health-care will not necessarily care for your health. - Neville Mandy
Science... internet... and women have one in common all end up as biatch.... So it's very bitchy, when they don't stop talking. - Deyth Banger
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. - Carl Sagan
There is a skill to learning. It is all about what is and what is not. While Science is knowing what is, Art is creating what is not. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Art is science made clear. - Jean Cocteau
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them - William Lawrence Bragg
Architecture is one part science, one part craft and two parts art. - David Rutten
Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology. - Wolfgang Köhler
The suppression of uncomfortable ideasmay be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no placein the endeavor of science. - Carl Sagan
Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium. - G.K. Chesterton
Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs. - Antonin Scalia
Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation to find easy paths - Paul Kalanithi
Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us. - Kary Mullis
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man. - Ralph J. Smith
I repeat that sin, man's self-violation par excellence, was invented purely inorder to make science, culture, and every elevation and ennobling of man impossible; the priest rules by the invention of sin. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The scriptures are the instruments and how to use these instruments is a science itself. One goes wandering around for infinite lives because he doesn’t have the knowledge of this science! - Dada Bhagwan
Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity. - Amit Ray
Science is the topography of ignorance. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Science and Religion are two vividly different realms of the human mind. They work differently at the molecular level, but the purpose of both is alleviation of the mind from the darkness of ignorance. - Abhijit Naskar
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. - Bertrand Russell
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. - Stephen Leacock
Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make others so.Wisdom is the science of happiness. - Robert G. Ingersoll
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. - Marie Curie
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition. - Bertrand Russell
Science is the best idea humans have ever had. - Bill Nye
Good heart does not produce science or even art, but knowledge does, intellect does and absolutely expertise does. - kambiz shabankareh
In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science. - Virchand Gandhi
The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others. - Masaru Ibuka
Science is a hammer for change. - J.J. Brown
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. - Richard Feynman
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths. - Carl Sagan
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible. - Rod Sterling
Humans are, as Sartre put it, ‘condemned to be free’. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments. - Kenan Malik
Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men. - Henry B. Eyring
Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science. - James Bridie
If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake. - Joss Whedon
We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context—in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks. - Isidor Isaac Rabi
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Technology and Science is what you make it. - Techno Geek Zone
The existence of a limit to science is, however, made clear by its inability to answer childlike elementary questions having to do with first and last things questions such as How did everything begin? What are we all here for? What is the point of living? - Sir Peter Medawar
Science is nothing but perception. - Plato
Science is what it is—not what we think. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz.[It had formerly been held that there were no genetic connections among species.] - Asa Gray
Science Magazine wouldn't in a dream think about publishing a single Chinese term. Chinese words and brands must be suppressed, crushed even, hold back at all costs. - Thorsten J. Pattberg
Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the Qur'an. - Jim Al-Khalili
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables -- those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling. - Ambrose Bierce
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. - Louis Pasteur
Science & Love have progressed "either" ways with growth of violence! - Vishwanath S J
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. - Hippocrates
Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public. - Ayn Rand
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now. - Arthur C. Clarke
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding... - Brian Greene
Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. - Aldous Huxley
This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. - Jimmy Carter
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
Psychology is the science of mental life - William James
Magic is just science we don't understand yet. - Jamey Dunn
In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science. - Mark Warner
And even though they had not had sex yet, he was a great lover, replacing sex with the science of bravery and inner strength. Meredith had always wanted a man with this kind of depth. - Keira D. Skye
Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.
The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace! - Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works. - Stephen Hawking
Ask a true scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will besilent. Ask a true religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied. - Kedar Joshi
If and when our civilization comes to ruin, the destructive agent will be Science; man's knowledge of science, applied to warfare, meaning slaughter not only of human bodies, but of human institutions, of all we have created through the centuries. - Cicely Hamilton
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. - Marvin Minsky
Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science. - Amit Kalantri
The good thing about science is that its true whether or not you believe in it - Waqas Bin Ehsan
The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence itself stand out. - Aldous Huxley
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. - Rodney Stark
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion. - Henry David Thoreau
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns - Stephen Baxter
That's science fiction shit," "It's only fiction until science catches up. - J.D. Robb
The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance - Lewis Thomas
The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. - A.E. Samaan
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence. - Richard Dawkins
Science was born, when religion failed to find the God! - Vishwanath S J
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science. - Rachel Carson
God created Universe and gave credit to science. - Sandeep Kakkar
Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct. - William C. Samples
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have. - Albert Einstein
Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country? - George Washington
The health of an enlightened and progressive society is measured by how vibrant is its science fiction, since that is where true self-critique and appraisal and hope lie. - David Brin
Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us. - Edgar Douglas Adrian
Yoga is a lifestyle and not just a mere kind of exercise to stay fit and health. It is a science which unfolds the endless potentials of our mind and soul. - Anamika Mishra
I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics. - Abhijit Naskar
No purpose, no science, only love alone can justify and explain the mysteries of creation. - Debasish Mridha
In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous. - Albert Einstein
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are. - G.K. Chesterton
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional objectivity. It would be more nearly true to say that it is based upon wonder, adventure and hope. - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
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.
The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future. - Luther Burbank
There is a fascinating entanglement of science and knowledge, which is expressed as scientific knowledge. - Eraldo Banovac
The ideology and philosophy of neo-Darwinism which is sold by its adepts as a scientific theoretical foundation of biology seriously hampers the development of science and hides from students the field’s real problems. - Vladimir L. Voeikov
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. - Bertolt Brecht
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. - Richard Dawkins
There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
My most educated analysis, with all means of science and technology in mind, is that it’s magic, Alex said. There’s no other possible explanation! -Alex Bailey, The Land of Stories; The Wishing Spell - Chris Colfer The Land of Stories
School taught me how to do language, maths and science; it failed to teach me the very basics of how to keep my home healthy. - Steven Magee
Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal. - Werner Von Braun
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. - Mary Shelley
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. - Evan Esar
In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain. - Jim Al-Khalili
Science adjusts its views based on what's observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved. - Tim Minchin
An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don't know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth to future catastrophe. - Kelly Steed
This’ is not called a religion, ‘This’ is called a science (vignan). Religion keeps changing, science does not change. - Dada Bhagwan
I dream of a planet where the science of the mind, brings the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran, and all other scriptures together and binds them with the golden twine of harmony. - Abhijit Naskar
Science Non Fiction/ Fantasy = Future - Deyth Banger
Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor. - Mary Doria Russell
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. - H.L. Mencken
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. - Will Durant
We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. - Barack Obama
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins. - Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow
Science without Philosophy leads to chaos. Philosophy without Science leads to nowhere. Only together they can construct a better world. - Abhijit Naskar
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
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching. - Ivan Pavlov
What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake! - Mehmet Murat ildan
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state... - James Clerk Maxwell
No art or science can penetrate that deepest of mysteries: what will happen tomorrow. - Marty Rubin
Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas. - Semen Frank
A philosopher once said 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results'. Well, they do not. You set up the circumstances, with the same conditions every time, and you cannot predict behind which hole you will see the electron. - Richard Feynman
Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith. - Jon Stewart
Another great contribution to science of Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (A) was his Theory of Light. He said that light reflected by different objects comes to us, but only a part of the rays enter our eyes. That is the reason why we do not see distant objects clearly. - Infallible Imam (A) (www.alhassanain.org/english/?com=book&id=721)
science enables you to look things differently. - Rahul Bodkhe
No art or science can penetrate that greatest of all mysteries: tomorrow. - Marty Rubin
If what we call it science , is making us think that what we know about the universe is normal , then it's not science. - Me
I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. - Yann Martel
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history - Iain Banks
With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams. - Umberto Boccioni
Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it. - Debasish Mridha
to paraphrase science writer John D. Barrow we know they are impossible and yet we can imagine them anyway. Our brains, it turns out, are not prisoners of the world we live in; we can fly free! We can, any time we like, create the impossible. - Robert Krulwich
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well. - Albert Einstein
Our true mentor in life is science. - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
By philosophy, history, economics and science, all knowledge and wisdom, humanity may eventually arrive at the awareness of its own oneness.... Sudipta Das - Sudipta Das
Management, a science? Of course not, it's just a waste-paper basket full of recipes which provided the dish of the day during a few years of plenty and economic growth. Now the recipes are inappropriate and the companies which persist in following them will disappear. - Leon Courville
Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. - Thomas H. Huxley
...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in the arts. There’s no longer a need for the social construct of religion. - David G. McAfee
The great lie that science has given us is that reality is material. - Compton Gage
People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding. - Glenn T. Seaborg
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. - Octavia E. Butler
Religion means researching the true Eternal thing with Deluded world view (with wrong belief) and ‘this’ (akram vignan) is a science itself. - Dada Bhagwan
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. - Oscar Wilde
Science fiction is the one literature that deals with today's reality - that provides a basis for discussion and understanding of the complex events of our time. It opens the doors for students - doors into all branches of knowledge. - Biggle
Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility and replicability. These are value commitments. - Alva Noë
Oh, they knew it was something, but it couldn't be that -- not that. That was imagination, that was superstition, there was no such thing as that. And before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything. - Richard Matheson
In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin. - Thomas Hayden
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
One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy - William Gibson
Marriage is a science which has studied no one! - Arnu
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. - Rebecca West
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance. - Hippocrates
The beauty of a thought is true science fiction. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of deducing by pure reasoning from speculative assumptions. - Paul A.M. Dirac
Magic's just science that we don't understand yet. - Arthur C. Clarke
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. - Richard Feynman
Throughout the ages, the wisdom has been taught. Now the language has changed, and truth is given in the language of science. - Compton Gage
Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe. - Luther Burbank
It took more than science to make hope real. - Jerome Groopman
Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. - Gene Wolfe
Art is fire, science is light. - Marty Rubin
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - Henry David Thoreau
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. - Judith Hayes
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it - Warren Ellis
Art and science have their meeting point in method. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice. - Noam Chomsky
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things. Associated Press interview, 12-7-11 - Walter Mosley
We're doing it wrong, absolutely wrong! Miss Universe should be about Space Exploration, Miss World about Science and Miss Earth about Going Green! - Manasa Rao Saarloos
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves. - Richard Feynman
Technology & Science is what you make it!!! - TechnoGeekZone
Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun. - Brian W. Aldiss
Do not buy finery or jewels, because books are worth more than they are. Adorn your understanding with their precious ideas, because there is no luxury that dazzles like the luxury of science. - Luisa Capetillo
Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile. - Santosh Kalwar
He wondered if somewhere far off, defying the laws of science, Mitch's two screams were still echoing, if those vibrations had traveled into space, if they moved on and on like rays in a light-year. There might be other forms of life who were receiving the noise and trying to interpret the tones. - Jane Hamilton
Science gives man what he needs.But magic gives him what he wants. - Tom Robbins
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. - Arthur C. Clarke
When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no honour too great to pay to the memory of , one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time. Ernest Rutherford - Faraday
Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy. - J.G. Ballard
To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint. - Leon Cooper
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
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. - Susan Sontag
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact. - A.E. van Vogt
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...' - Isaac Asimov
The technology of the future is made possible by the science of today. - Kambiz Mostofizadeh
If we reject science, we reject the common man. - نجيب محفوظ
Diplomacy is so weak and prosaic. Diplomacy must never become an end, itself. Facts are so much more important in science. Yet, I'm beginning to appreciate the value of a soft word and a smile. --Unassimilated pg 294 - Michael Benzehabe
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. - Oscar Wilde
When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough. - Jay Nichols
It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion. - Abhijit Naskar
Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever. - Richard Diaz
People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then? - Tad Williams
Not everything we experience can be explained by logic or science. - Linda Westphal
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed. - Thomas H. Huxley
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. - Frank Herbert
But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men. - Gustave Flaubert
[When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996:]If ‘fulfilled prophecy’ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses. - Carl Sagan
Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork. - Elbert Hubbard
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
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. - Bill Watterson
Don't study science. Play with it. - Abhijit Naskar
Philosophy lets you imagine the infinity, and Science makes you get there. - Abhijit Naskar
In ancient times, determinism rested on a belief in an omniscient God. Today, it is not old-time religion, but, rather, our culture's newfound faith - science - that challenges the belief in free will. - Jeffrey M. Schwartz
Science begs literature to develop wings. - Santosh Kalwar
​A sage sees no conflict between Science & Religion. - Abhijit Naskar
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club. - Thomas Henry Huxley
What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food. - François Jacob
There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art. - Raymond Chandler
Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's economic life. - Jamsetji Tata
Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer. - Humphry Davy
Tarot is a practice rich with history and cultural knowledge. It is a science of the mind. - Benebell Wen
Politics is no exact science.
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve. - Petar Dunov
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma. - Jean-Marie Lehn
With medical science improving at roughly the same rate as our environmental situation worsens, the most likely scenario is that the world will become uninhabitable at the precise moment the human race becomes immortal. - Steve Toltz
Rocket science only needed when we build rocket. - Desmond Hong
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces. - John Ruskin
Science is the most reliable guide in life. - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Creativity is the art and science of expressing inner beauty. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it. - Terry Pratchett
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. - George Santayana
It’s a bizarre act of self-mutilation to say that ‘I don’t get on with science fiction and fantasy, therefore I’m never going to read any’. What a shame. All those great books that you’re cutting yourself off from. - David Mitchell
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness. - Thomas Bartholin
One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment. - Steven Weinberg
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much. - Gertrude B. Elion
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls this adventure Science. - Edward Powell Hubble
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. - Octavia E. Butler
Steampunk is Victorian science fiction - G.D. Falksen
Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. - Stephen Jay Gould
Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature. - John F. Kennedy
In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science. - Edward Forbes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," the long out-of-print science fiction writer went on. - Kurt Vonnegut
Claiming that a person who views the Bible as nothing but a compendium of myths is thus denying the existence of a Creator is like claiming a person who rejects the junk science behind ‘man-made global warming’ is denying the existence of atmosphere. - Dave Champion
Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology. - Sunday Adelaja
Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science. - C. JoyBell C.
Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown. - Chandrakanth Natekar
Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride. - Claude Bernard
Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Update your truth! There is no soul; there is only mind and body! Update your truth or the truth will update you! The truth and the science are the greatest updaters! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Science is a way humans try to tell themselves the truths. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Science and technology are the engines of prosperity. Of course, one is free to ignore science and technology, but only at your peril. The world does not stand still because you are reading a religious text. If you do not master the latest in science and technology, then your competitors will. - Michio Kaku
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
If I may paraphrase 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. Thomas Henry Huxley - Hobbes
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor. - The Talmud
Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science. - P.D. Ouspensky
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. - Albert Einstein
The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science. - Henry Thomas Buckle
What’s the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we’re willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true? - F. Sherwood Rowland
Science is but the statement of truth found out.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." - Isaac Asimov
Science is the only true guide in life. - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Art and science should serve humanity and not the other way around. - Marty Rubin
Science fiction is the arena of the not-yet, and every science fiction story has this element of not-yet-ness — usually a bit of technology or a scientific discovery that we don't know about in the real world of the present but that might be a possibility in the future. - Welch Everman
There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. - Michael Shermer
Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. - Albert Einstein
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1. - Ernest Rutherford
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' - Isaac Asimov
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. - Sir Arthur Eddington
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: 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
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. - Galileo Galilei
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
Culture, like science, is no protection against demons. - G.K. Chesterton
Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, and being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch. - J.B.S. Haldane
Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible. - Ray Bradbury
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. - E. W. Dijkstra
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. - Gary Zukav
To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don’t be afraid, you don’t fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. - Carl Sagan
Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you. - Dara Ó Briain
Science have proof that women talk more than men, it's a fact. - Deyth Banger
For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works. - Jim Al-Khalili
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics. - Immanuel Kant
In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is, that the man of science who concerns himself solely with science, who cannot enjoy and be enriched by art, is a misshapen man. An incomplete man. - William Styron
Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole. - Theodosius Dobzhansky
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.
Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. - L. Ron Hubbard
Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know. - Ted Chiang
For God’s sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your life! Keep God, get rid of religion! God, Love and Science; the Magnificent Trinity! All you need is these three things! - Mehmet Murat ildan
In science, mistakes always precede the truth. - Horace Walpole
There are very few things in the world I hate more than Daylight Savings Time. It is the grand lie of time, the scourge of science, the blight on biological understanding. - Michelle Franklin
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. - Albert Einstein
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up -- and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.
If you go very deeper you will see that you are not in freedom you are in cage made by chemistry and science. - Deyth Banger
ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists. - Ambrose Bierce
Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development. - Alfred North Whitehead
There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women. - Joanna Russ
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. - Eric Raymond
Mysticism is colourful and alluring, but if you are after the truth, science is the best path! - Mehmet Murat ildan
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. - Max Born
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
... Science... denude(s) all religious beliefs... denigrating them as irrational forms of superstition or myth regardless of their intrinsic rationality or value. - Nicolas Gane
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? - Carl Sagan
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras. - Alan Kay
A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity. - Voltaire
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. - Frederik Pohl
One of the greatest tragedies of our time, is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war - Francis Collins
Science is beautiful because of its endless curiosity. - Debasish Mridha
We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure—and always shall, so long as we keep doing science. - Timothy Ferris
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know - Bertrand Russell
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life - Immanuel Kant
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan
Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
True writing is not an art or science but it's an anthem to preach own soul - Kunal Jajal
Religion was (is) always steps ahead of science; because religion lies and science can’t. - M.F. Moonzajer
Science have imagination, most people doubt about that. This word "Doubt" makes a lot of stuff interesting. - Deyth Banger
Love makes me incredible to enter in the new life and smile makes me happier in my life, Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile. I love to be a part of your life when I am depressed there is only smile & kindness that attracts me.#Love#Dimple:p - Avinash Advani
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. - Sir Francis Darwin
Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science. - Charles Darwin
science is one , gods are manyscience allows change and accept new tested things but religion notscience laws are same all over earth but religions have different - er.teji
We must remember that science is a way of using empirical evidence to better understand our world. We are all scientists, just many of us are not very good ones. However, we are all capable of exercising our intellects in a purposeful, linear pursuit of knowledge. - Chris Matakas
We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is. - Theodore Sturgeon
Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science. - Thomas E. Woods Jr.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. - Albert Einstein
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space. - Arthur C. Clarke
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein
Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap - Chet Raymo
Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences. - Ernst Boris Chain
We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value. - David Sarnoff
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. - Thomas Love Peacock
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Well, once again, my friend we find that science is a two-headed beast. One head is nice, it gives us aspirin and other modern conveniences... but the other head of science is bad! Oh, beware the other head of science, Arthur, it bites! - The Tick
Wit had conquered science by laughing it out of court. - Philip Schuyler Allen
The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum - Dean Cavanagh
Science is interesting... Albert Eistein has said that he believe in religion, and he has said "Science without a religion is nothing and the reverse...", but now some people say that he has said and that he doesn't believe in religion and in god!? (That's call reverse...) - Deyth Banger
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics. - Isidor Isaac Rabi
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more - George Bernard Shaw
Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural power but to the human mind, to the science and to the high ethical values! - Mehmet Murat ildan
One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project. - Joe Roman
Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game. - William Gibson
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself. - William Cobbett
I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it. - Robert M. Sapolsky
I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. - Matthew S. Williams
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it. - Richard Feynman
Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom. - Carl Sagan
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. - Carl Sagan
It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science. - Albert Einstein
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? - Kelvin Throop III
Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics!-The Doctor (Matt Smith) - Steven Moffat
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. - Ernest Rutherford
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. - Arthur Erickson
But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science. - Michael Shermer
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. - Arthur C. Clarke
...hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and enjoy it; joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness - Philip K. Dick
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. - Richard Feynman
If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith? - Charles Darwin
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true - Freeman Dyson
In science, work (W) is done when force (F) move a body through a distance (D). It is the same with our every day affairs. When you don't progress, no work is done irrespective of the force (power) you have - Israelmore Ayivor
Though often scoffed at by serious writers, science fiction worms its way into our cultural psyche in interesting ways, and not just as predictors of technology. Many of these writers translate the –isms of our times into imagined futures populated with characters coping with the consequences. - Frank Daniels III
Good science is always humanity’s best friend! - Mehmet Murat ildan
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism. - Albert Einstein
The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction. - T.L. Rese
Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science. - Philip Abelson
There is no truth, only science and fiction. - Steven Brewis
Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart! - Saru Singhal
If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful. - Otto von Bismarck
Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities. - Miriam Allen de Ford
Regardless of how much wealth [material pleasures] one has, if he does not like bondage even for a moment, then he has become qualified to understand the science of the Vitarags [the enlightened one’s]. - Dada Bhagwan
Sacred is greater than science. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. - Jean Rostand
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov
Science is the poetry of reality. - Richard Dawkins
Science has given us a great lie. It is this lie that ends the current age of faith in God. - Compton Gage
I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science. - Derek Barton
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It's the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. - Albert Einstein
When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition. - Debasish Mridha
open science is returning science to its true essence - Mayank Trivedi
Science is organized knowledge. - Herbert Spencer
To stand on thebrink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeling of impatience, doubt, orunworthiness hindering the receiving of it—that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best. - Ask and It is Given
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary. - Albert Einstein
They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live. - Thomas Jefferson
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written. - William Gibson
PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with. - Ambrose Bierce
Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. - James Clerk Maxwell
Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette. - Pierre Desproges
We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science. - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not. - Ambrose Bierce
Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason. - Thiruman Archunan
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country. - Elvin C. Stakman
Have you ever felt love?Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and scientifically proved your love existed? If you could not prove it, would that mean your love didn't exist? What would you trust: your own feelings, or science? - Derrick Jensen
Both science and spirituality tell us today that meditation and mindfulness strengthen mental control. The more we feel conscious of, and in control of our thoughts and our emotions, the more empowered we become to take effective action that is most suitable for our health and our life. - Evita Ochel
Be true to yourself, be positive, always keep a clear mind and don’t stress. Be goal driven and with a strong will power, your career will surely kick off. Relationship wise be faithful and love your man, and the rest is self explanatory because it’s not rocket science. - Jenelle Joanne Ramsami
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. - Michael Shermer
According to the science writer Philip Ball, when it was pointed out to musicologist Deryck Cookethat Slavic and much Spanish music use minor keys for happy music, he claimed that their liveswere so hard that they didn’t really know what happiness was anyway. - David Byrne
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)] - Stephen Hawking
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions. - Ambrose Bierce
Science is a kind of worship to find the truth. - Debasish Mridha
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? - Carl Sagan
Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce. - Elena Ferrante
Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God. - Johnny Hart
Science is nothing but the process of finding solutions. - Debasish Mridha
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
Human science is an uncertain guess.
Science can neither prove nor disprove Scripture; it can hope only to begin to understand it. - Ron Brackin
Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned. - Leigh Brackett
Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things. - St. Augustine
Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society. - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the theory of relativity? Did creationists crash the party and start a rumble? - Tami Hoag
The sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing. - Laren Grey Umphlett
Science fiction" means different things to different people. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra"—in which case the term science fiction has piled up a lot of expensive overtime. - Robert A. Heinlein
Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself. - Bob Proctor
If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction. (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012) - Brandon Sanderson
There is no science without spirituality; spirituality has no meaning without science. - Debasish Mridha
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