Quotes about Science
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
by Mark Russell (Writer, American , born in 1932) keywords: airline, best, composed, entirely, lost, luggage, rings, saturn, scientific , theory I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
by George Santayana (Philosopher, American , born in 1970) keywords: believe, between, dualism, facts, general, heads, human, ideas , those Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
by Arthur M. Schlesinger (Historian, American , born in 1888) keywords: frame, lives, memory, myth, our, response, revolutionize, science, technology , tradition 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.
by Adam Smith (Economist, Scottish , born in 1970) keywords: adventure, approach, certain, certainty, greater, lose, lottery, nearer, number, tickets, upon , your A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
by Edward Teller (Physicist, American , born in 1908) keywords: believe, believes, effective, everyone, fact, found, guilty, hypothesis, innocent, novel, simple, statement, suggestion, unless, until , wants 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.
by Lewis Thomas (Scientist, English , born in 1913) keywords: along, behaviour, cloning, computer, control, engineering, flowers, genetic, growth, heads, humans, lists, most, plastic, poetry, science, things, transplanted, unrestrained , worry The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
by Lewis Thomas (Scientist, English , born in 1913) keywords: better, doctors, fact, get, great, hidden, known, morning, most, only, public, secret, still, their, themselves, things , wives 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.
by Alvin Toffler (Author, American , born in 1928) keywords: biological, come, computer, computers, explosion, function, genetics, going, major, next, organic, semiconductor, substances, talking , together The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
by Paul Valery (Poet, French , born in 1871) keywords: capital, discovery, folly, inborn, metaphor, oneself, oracle, paradox, proof, spring, torrent, truths , us In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
by Hugh Walpole (Writer, New Zealander , born in 1884) keywords: better, error, first, go, last, precedes, science, should, than , truth Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
by James D. Watson (Scientist, American , born in 1928) keywords: competitiveness, degree, fostering, freedom, give, pressure, put, researchers, seclusion, take, them, together, turn, unprecedented, up, virtual , young
