Science Quotes - Page 7

• There is no area of the world that should not be investigated by scientists. There will always remain some questions that have not been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.

  Linus Pauling

  World, Scientist, Should

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• Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Leadership, Philosophy, Math

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)

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• If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Inspirational, Business, Insomnia

  In New Yorker 9 Aug. 1969

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• ... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

  James Bryant Conant

  Ideas, Research, Abstract

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• It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

  Neil Gaiman

  Truth, Fool, Speak

  Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg (2006). “The absolute sandman”

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• As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

  Marcel Proust

  Freedom, Men, Thinking

  "J. Robert Oppenheimer" by L. Barnett, in Life, Vol. 7, No. 9 (p. 58), October 24, 1949.

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• If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

  Robert Quillen

  Space, Wish, World

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• Scientists, therefore, are responsible for their research, not only intellectually but also morally. This responsibility has become an important issue in many of today's sciences, but especially so in physics, in which the results of quantum mechanics and relativity theory have opened up two very different paths for physicists to pursue. They may lead us - to put it in extreme terms - to the Buddha or to the Bomb, and it is up to each of us to decide which path to take.

  Fritjof Capra

  Responsibility, Issues, Two

  "The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1983.

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• The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

  Aristotle

  Truth, Men, Thinking

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• So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely self-contained, it would have neither beginning or end, it would simply be. What place then for a creator?

  Stephen Hawking

  Self, Long, Religion

  "Faith and Reason" with Margaret Wertheim, www.pbs.org. September 11, 1998.

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• I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Groups, Used

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Icarus; or, the Future of Science”, p.3, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspirational, Education, Business

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Death

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

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• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Time, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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• The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Witty

  1950 Out of My LaterYears.

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• Science is the systematic classification of experience.

  George Henry Lewes

  Experience, Systematic, Classification

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Physical Basis of Mind: Being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind”

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• An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

  Max Planck

  Nature, Answers, Measurement

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

  Wernher von Braun

  Baby, Nine, Months

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• In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Done, Idiot

  "More Random Walks in Science". Book by Robert L. Weber, p. 109, 1982.

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• Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.57, Princeton University Press

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• Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

  e. e. cummings

  Clever, Doors, Next

  1 x 1 (1944) no. 14

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• It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

  Carl Sagan

  Creativity, Unexpected, Skepticism

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.73, Ballantine Books

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