Science Quotes - page 14

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist. (Albert Hofmann)
To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition. ... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant. View quote
Heinrich Rohrer
We live of novelty in science. So when you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that it cannot be done, that it's not interesting and so on. View quote
Heinrich Rohrer
The future is better than the past. Despite the crepehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands...with tools...with horse sense and science and engineering. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood. View quote
Michael Shermer
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. View quote
Michael Shermer
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper. View quote
Michael Shermer
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. View quote
Michael Shermer
But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science. View quote
Michael Shermer
The origin of all science is in the desire to know causes; and the origin of all false science and imposture is in the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance. View quote
William Hazlitt
The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in which we move, me may in time ascertain the mean temperature of the heavenly bodies: but I regard this order of facts as for ever excluded from our recognition. We can never learn their internal constitution, nor, in regard to some of them, how heat is absorbed by their atmosphere. We may therefore define Astronomy as the science by which we discover the laws of the geometrical and mechanical phenomena presented by the heavenly bodies. (Auguste Comte)
The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together. View quote
Arthur Compton
Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either. View quote
Jean Chrétien
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed by officials, academics, or economists who know every science but the science of human nature. View quote
Jean Chrétien
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war. View quote
Edward Condon
But one had to trust instruments over instincts, that was science. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. View quote
Robert Andrews Millikan
You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Every poet has trembled on the verge of science. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone. (Eyvind Johnson)
Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions. View quote
George Sarton
The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking. View quote
George Sarton
Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way. View quote
George Sarton
The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for the lack of chicken. In the same way, the chief requisite for the history of science is intimate scientific knowledge; no amount of philosophic legerdemain can make up for its absence. View quote
George Sarton