Quotes of: Exact-science Keyword

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Joseph Wood Krutch

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Jonathan Miller

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

John Charles Polanyi

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Kary Mullis

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Linus Pauling

I really do think that science has an internal structure, and it makes sense, and we can test it.

Lisa Randall

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

Morris Raphael Cohen

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

Martin Feldstein

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

Michael Shermer

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

I'm not of a science background, I was never a comic book geek, and I was never a gamer.

Niall Matter

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.

Norman Macleod

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

Philip Warren Anderson

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

Pierre Bourdieu

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

Richard Dawkins

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

Sidney Altman

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

Stephen Hawking

I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

Stephen Hawking

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Stephen Hawking