Science Quotes

They're not going to teach science at all. What they do is take the science students down to the lake, tie them in burlap sacks and throw them in. If God thinks they're good science students, they float.

Paula Poundstone

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Frederik Pohl

Science deals with epistemology, not with ontology.

Carlos Gershenson

Science, the agent that once promised to eradicate the supernatural, had, through the nuclear threat, resurrected it. Magic was not exactly alive, but it was surely undead.

Jim Trombetta

Swiftness is the enemy of comprehension.

Felix Alba-Juez

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.

Gary Malone

Cited in Fundamentals of Political Science

Leonid Brezhnev

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

Harmony Korine

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

Henry Taube

Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.

Friedrich Engels

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.

Oliver Sacks

A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.

Jean-Baptiste Say

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

James H. Breasted

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

Al Hirschfeld

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

Joseph Stiglitz

If that's true, then answer this priest, why are we in these pits, hiding from some animal? Conan asked Someday, when all your civilization and science are likewise swept away, your kind will pray for a man with a sword.

Robert E. Howard

No Gods Or Kings. Only Man. -Andrew Ryan

John Shirley

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Rachel Carson

And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now.

Ben Goldacre