Quotes and sayings about tag  science

132 Quotes

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Isaac Newton

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Isaac Newton

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Isaac Newton

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

Jasper Fforde

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

John Keats

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

John Lubbock

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

John Lubbock

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

John Maynard Keynes

John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]

John Muir

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

Joss Whedon

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Jules Verne

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Jules Verne

As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.

Julie Kagawa

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Karl R. Popper

Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.

Karl R. Popper

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