Science Quotes - Page 16

• Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

  George Santayana

  Common Sense, Perception, Development

  The Life of Reason: Reason in Science, Ch. 11

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• It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Men, Machines, Slave

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• True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Doubt, Ignorant, Teach

  The Tragic Sense of Life Ch. V

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• I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Numbers, Measurement

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

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• The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

  Ruth Benedict

  Differences, Safety, Humanity

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• A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

  Niels Bohr

  Alaska, Atoms, Way

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• I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.20, Princeton University Press

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• The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

  John Glenn

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

  "Space All systems go for National Space Day". CNN, May 4, 2000.

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  If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Music, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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• There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

  Francis Crick

  Men, Views, Anatomy And Physiology

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• We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

  Brian Cox

  Life, Mean, People

  "Wonders of the Universe (Messengers)". Documentary, March 27, 2011.

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• The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

  Adam Savage

  Funny, Writing, Differences

  TV Series "MythBusters" ("Bouncing Bullet", 2012), (2003- ).

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• You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Success, Education

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.10, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.

  Lee Strobel

  Faith, Christian, Atheist

  Twitter post from Mar 20, 2017

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• It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

  Hans Asperger

  Funny, Success, Art

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• Religion has ever been anti-human, anti-woman, anti-life, anti-peace, anti-reason and anti-science. The god idea has been detrimental not only to humankind but to the earth. It is time now for reason, education and science to take over.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Life, God, Education

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• I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.

  G. H. Hardy

  Lying, Believe, Math

  G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views.

  John Polkinghorne

  Religious, Knowledge, Views

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• Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

  Magnus Hirschfeld

  Love, Inspirational, Attitude

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• Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

  Willard Libby

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Collective Effort

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• The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.

  Charles Hard Townes

  God, Faith, Believe

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• Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of modern science to improve home life.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Life, Home, Past

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• Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Philosophy, Opposites, Fundamentals

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.14, Verso

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• The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Faith, Hope, Eye

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