Quotes of: Hawking Keyword

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Galileo Galilei

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

John Polkinghorne

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

Kenneth G. Wilson

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

Michio Kaku

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

Martin Rees

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

Marcus du Sautoy

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

Nathan Myhrvold

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Rene Descartes

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Richard Dawkins

I want very much to communicate science to as wide an audience as possible, but not at a cost of dumbing down, and not at a cost in getting things right.

Richard Dawkins

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

Ron Eglash

Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Rudy Rucker

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Rudy Rucker

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Ludwig Wittgenstein