Quotes and sayings about tag  #science

Quotes and sayings about tag  science

132 Quotes

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Madeleine L'Engle

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

Mark Lawrence

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.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

Michael Crichton

God is an ever-receding pocket of? scientific ignorance.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

Max Planck

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Michael Crichton

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

Michael Crichton

It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.

Michio Kaku

I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

Patricia Cornwell

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

Ray Bradbury

There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Richard Feynman

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Richard Feynman

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

Robert A. Heinlein

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

Nikola Tesla

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

Nikola Tesla

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