Science Quotes on Discovery & Curiosity – Page 7 | GloryQuotes

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

Joshua Lederberg

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

Huston Smith

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Donald Norman

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

Charles Krauthammer

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Gabriel Marcel

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

Chauncey Wright

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Lukas Foss

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

Norman Lamm

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

J. G. Ballard

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Henri Poincare

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Octavia Butler

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Kenneth L. Pike

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

Serge Lang

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montagu

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

Erwin Schrodinger

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

Charles Babbage

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

Chauncey Wright

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Evan Esar

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

Theodore Sturgeon

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

Polykarp Kusch

So I decided on science when I was in college.

Sally Ride

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Walter Gilbert

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Sarah Zettel

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Thomas Dekker

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

Bertolt Brecht

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Kenneth L. Pike

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

E. O. Wilson

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

John F. Kennedy

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

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Konrad Lorenz

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Tim Bishop

There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.

Larry Wachowski

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Edouard Manet

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

Paul Samuelson

I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

Philip Warren Anderson

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

Donald Johanson

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

Charles E. Wilson

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Anton Chekhov

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Michael Shermer

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

John Carmack

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Karl Popper

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

John Polkinghorne

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Alfred Adler

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

Frederik Pohl