Quotes and sayings about tag  science

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

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• Science

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.

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• Life

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

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• Science

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

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• Science

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

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• Inspirational

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

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• Science

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.

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• Science

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

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• Science

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

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• Science

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

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• Science

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

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• Education

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

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• Science

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

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• Science

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

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• Science

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

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• Science

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

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• Science

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

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• Science

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

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• Science

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

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• Inspirational

It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

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• Success

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

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• Inspirational

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

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• Science

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

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• Science

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

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• Inspirational

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.

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• Humor

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.

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• Science

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

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• Science

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

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• Science

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

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• Humor

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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• Wisdom