Science Quotes
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"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional."
-Oscar Wilde
-Oscar Wilde
"Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement."
-Oscar Wilde
-Oscar Wilde
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true."
-Carl Sagan
-Carl Sagan
"In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
-Galileo Galilei
-Galileo Galilei
"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."
-Charles Darwin
-Charles Darwin
"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
-Thomas Henry Huxley
-Thomas Henry Huxley
"Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club."
-Thomas H. Huxley
-Thomas H. Huxley
"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."
-Lewis Thomas
-Lewis Thomas
"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."
-George Santayana
-George Santayana
"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
"I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale."
-Marie Curie
-Marie Curie
"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."
-M. Cartmill
-M. Cartmill
"Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with."
-Max Planck
-Max Planck
"The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market."
-Daniel S. Greenberg
-Daniel S. Greenberg
"The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions."
-Claude Levi strauss
-Claude Levi strauss
"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."
-Ivan Pavlov
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