Quotes of: Rocket-science Keyword

It’s so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that ‘the world’ is mundanely ‘a planet.’ The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project.

Hey Nostradamus!

During the century after , it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

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

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will.

Killosophy

Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of before – without being burned alive for it.

The Return

Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.

Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it's all the same. The only thing magical about it is that we can't explain it." ~Sam

Shiver

I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries.

Magonia

The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction.

The Mouse the Roared

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

When I die I’m donating my body to science, because everybody loves a free buffet.


Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

Love is the science of reducing your sound while upping the amplitude of another person.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

Looking for Alibrandi

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

Life of Pi

We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless.

Lasher

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

Just like science, there must be other kinds of sensations which haven't yet been felt by the human heart at all.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut