Quotes of: Scientific-fact Keyword

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

Stephen Hawking

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

Cat Stevens

Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

Edward Thorndike

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Ian Mcewan

The idea that people are nutritionally deprived because they don't eat grain has no scientific basis.

David Perlmutter

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

Joseph Murray

Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

Damon Lindelof

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

Janna Levin

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.

Lynn Margulis

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Horace Mann

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

Kenneth R. Miller

I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.

Philip Emeagwali

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

Men want children later, but women can't rely on being able to. So I'm all for scientific advances and the help they can give people.

Mariella Frostrup

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Stephen Vizinczey

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

Life

The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.

Life

Some positive thinkers get consistent powerful results almost deserving of a scientific formula

Victor Manan Nyambala

More scientific language and less diplomatic rhetoric may make this world even better.

Wen Jiabao