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Science Quotes
"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
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"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean."
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"The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up."
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"I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science."
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"The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation."
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"Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope."
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"When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves."
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"Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period."
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"Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break."
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
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"Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness."
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"The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos."
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"Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic."
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"Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science."
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"I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology."
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"Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game."
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"The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern."
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"We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions."
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"The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science."
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"The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world."
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"Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth."
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"Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book."
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"The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself."
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"There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science."
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"Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well."
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"The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated."
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"Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups."
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"American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been."
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"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah."
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"I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday."
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