Quotes of: Sciences Keyword

Nikola Tesla: Things don't always go as planned, Mr. Angier. That's the beauty of science.

The Prestige

This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

Irving Langmuir

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Paul Dirac

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

David Hilbert

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

Frans de Waal

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

John B. S. Haldane

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Paul Davies

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

Rupert Sheldrake

Indeed, every true science has for its object the determination of certain phenomena by means of others, in accordance with the relations which exist between them.

Auguste Comte

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

Alan Davies

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

Anthony Fauci

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Aldous Huxley

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

Al Seckel

You can't stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something's got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.

Billy Burke

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

Bill Frist

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

Brian Greene

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

Barney Oliver

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.

Brian Schmidt

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

Bill Watterson