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