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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘science’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.” -Erich Fromm
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“We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.” -Paulo Coelho
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“Man lives for science as well as bread.” -William James
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“Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.” -Steven Wright
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“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.” -Bill Gates
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“Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.” -Thomas Paine
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“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.” -Jimi Hendrix
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“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.” -Thomas A. Edison
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“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.” -Pope John Paul II
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“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.” -Milton Friedman
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“Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“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
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“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“I’m concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.” -Joan Jett
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“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.” -Aristotle
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“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.” -Albert Einstein
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“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.” -Helen Keller
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“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.” -Donella Meadows
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“Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.” -Jane Howard
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“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.” -Martin Henry Fischer
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“Whenever anyone says, ‘theoretically,’ they really mean, ‘not really.’” -Dave Parnas
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“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.” -Hugh Walpole
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“If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.” -Robert Quillen
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“There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.” -Charles Pierce
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“The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.” -Walter Lippmann
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“When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.” -Leon Battista Alberti
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“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.” -Alvin Toffler
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“It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.” -Wernher von Braun
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“Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.” -John von Neumann
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“Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.” -Linus Pauling
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“Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.” -Jay Leno
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“He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.” -Bill Dana
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“There are no shortcuts in evolution.” -Louis D. Brandeis
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“Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘How?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘Why?’” -Erwin Chargaff
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“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.” -Howard Nemerov
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“Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.” -Edmund Hillary
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“All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.” -Roger Bacon
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“From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle we just decided to go.” -Tom Hanks
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“People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.” -Charles Kettering
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“I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.” -Jacques Yves Cousteau
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“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.” -Heinrich Heine
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“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.” -Arthur M. Schlesinger
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“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.” -Gertrude Stein
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“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” -Bruce Feirstein
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“We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.” -Alfred Hitchcock
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“Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.” -Adam Smith
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“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.” -E. B. White
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“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.” -George Santayana
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“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.” -John Dewey
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“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.” -Russell Baker
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“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.” -Mark Russell
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“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
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“The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.” -Arnold H. Glasow
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“We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.” -Carl Jung
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“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.” -Rene Descartes
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“Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.” -Niels Bohr
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“Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.” -Margaret Mead
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“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.” -Mary Kay Ash
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“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“One cubic cm of air, that is, the space about the size of a sugar cube, will contain about 45,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules.”
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“Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms, up to a billion per each of us, it has been sugested,…
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