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Image of Lewis Thomas
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
Collection: Science
Image of John Dewey
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
- John Dewey
Collection: Science
Image of Stephen Jay Gould
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
Collection: Science
Image of Walter Gilbert
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
- Walter Gilbert
Collection: Science
Image of Gaston Bachelard
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
- Gaston Bachelard
Collection: Science
Image of Wilhelm Reich
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
- Wilhelm Reich
Collection: Science
Image of Mae Jemison
We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
- Mae Jemison
Collection: Science
Image of George Henry Lewes
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
- George Henry Lewes
Collection: Science
Image of Robert Green Ingersoll
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Science
Image of Jeff Bezos
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
- Jeff Bezos
Collection: Science
Image of John F. Kennedy
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
Collection: Science
Image of Margaret Mead
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
Collection: Science
Image of Rene Descartes
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
- Rene Descartes
Collection: Science
Image of Carl Sagan
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
- Carl Sagan
Collection: Science
Image of E. Y. Harburg
Leave the atom alone.
- E. Y. Harburg
Collection: Science
Image of Heinrich Heine
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
- Heinrich Heine
Collection: Science
Image of Jacques Yves Cousteau
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Collection: Science
Image of Edmund Hillary
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
Collection: Science
Image of Isaac Newton
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
- Isaac Newton
Collection: Science
Image of Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Collection: Science
Image of Mae Jemison
I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?
- Mae Jemison
Collection: Science
Image of Frank Deford
Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief - the NHL still permits fights.
- Frank Deford
Collection: Science
Image of Alexis Carrel
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
- Alexis Carrel
Collection: Science
Image of Diana Gabaldon
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
- Diana Gabaldon
Collection: Science
Image of Esther Hicks
If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'
- Esther Hicks
Collection: Science
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Science
Image of Matt Gaetz
History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who deny the science of climate change. Similarly, those Democrats who would use climate change as a basis to regulate out of existence the American experience will face the harsh reality that their ideas will fail.
- Matt Gaetz
Collection: Science
Image of Michael Nielsen
If networked science is to reach its potential, scientists will have to embrace and reward the open sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just traditional journal publication. Networked science must be open science.
- Michael Nielsen
Collection: Science
Image of Andre Breton
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
- Andre Breton
Collection: Science
Image of Paul Virilio
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
- Paul Virilio
Collection: Science
Image of A. B. Yehoshua
I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.
- A. B. Yehoshua
Collection: Science
Image of Jeffrey Wright
I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.
- Jeffrey Wright
Collection: Science
Image of Brian Greene
Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
- Brian Greene
Collection: Science
Image of Friedrich Durrenmatt
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
Collection: Science
Image of Celine Sciamma
Well, regarding actors, my idol is Catherine Deneuve, but not in relation to my work, I'm just a fan. As far as genres, I've been reading a lot of science fiction, and I would love to make a fantastic film.
- Celine Sciamma
Collection: Science
Image of Cynthia Breazeal
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.
- Cynthia Breazeal
Collection: Science
Image of Emily Calandrelli
I want to make everyone believe that they can understand math and science.
- Emily Calandrelli
Collection: Science
Image of Octavia E. Butler
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
- Octavia E. Butler
Collection: Science
Image of Robert Graves
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
- Robert Graves
Collection: Science
Image of Jon Kabat-Zinn
Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Collection: Science
Image of Carolyn Porco
Those of us engaged in the practice of science come to feel a certain reverence for it, engendered by its demonstrable power to dissect, clarify, and explain what previously was unexplainable, and thus to improve the human condition.
- Carolyn Porco
Collection: Science
Image of Rupert Sheldrake
The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
- Rupert Sheldrake
Collection: Science
Image of Leonard Susskind
Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.
- Leonard Susskind
Collection: Science
Image of Irving Langmuir
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
- Irving Langmuir
Collection: Science
Image of Franz Grillparzer
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
- Franz Grillparzer
Collection: Science
Image of Gabriel Marcel
Metaphysics is a science.
- Gabriel Marcel
Collection: Science
Image of Michael Shermer
In order to displace a prevailing theory or paradigm in science, it is not enough to merely point out what it cannot explain; you have to offer a new theory that explains more data, and do so in a testable way.
- Michael Shermer
Collection: Science
Image of Viola Davis
Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.
- Viola Davis
Collection: Science
Image of Gad Saad
Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question. This is precisely why the scientific method is the most powerful framework for understanding the world.
- Gad Saad
Collection: Science