Quotes of: Social-sciences Keyword

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

Philosophy of Science

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

Theories and Things

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Freedom, the first-born of science.

Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

Gertrude B. Elion

We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.

Peter Deunov

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Robert Aickman

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

Raymond Chandler

Cooking is science, throw some ingredients together and a meal may appear, may not be edible but everyone has to start somewhere.

Samuel Victor David Evans

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Sir William Osler

If existance of something cannot be proved scientifically, it only means that science is not equipped to prove it right now.

Sukant Ratnakar

If existince of something cannot be proved scientifically, it only means that science is not equipped to prove it right now.

Sukant Ratnakar

Science is a lie in day-light, with a lot witnesses. Religion is a truth in darkness, without any need for such witness!

Thiruman Archunan

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

LeVar Burton

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

Lewis Thomas

If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Maria Mitchell

Scientists know more and more and so science advances. Artists know less and less and so art advances.

Marty Rubin

If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science.

Martin Rees