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. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. —Stephen Jay Gould More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. —Sir William Bragg More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. —Sir Francis Darwin More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. —Paul Dirac More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. —Marie Curie More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. —Louis Pasteur More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. —Hippocrates More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist. —Harrison Ford More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. —Ashley Montague More about this quote Tags: science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Revolution is not a onetime event. —Audre Lorde More about this quote Tags: revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email