Science Quotes - Page 38

• I'll teach you differences.

  William Shakespeare

  Teaching, Differences, Teach

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.892, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Teaching, Taught

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• The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk where they are least expected, and that they may escape the notice of the most experienced and conscientious worker.

  John William Strutt

  Teaching, Errors, May

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• There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. Von Neumann didn't say anything but after five minutes he raised his hand. When I called on him he went to the blackboard and proceeded to write down the proof. After that I was afraid of von Neumann.

  George Polya

  Teaching, Writing, Hands

  "How to Solve It" by George Polya, 2nd edition, (p. xv), 1957.

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• Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Nice, Teaching, Thinking

  Man and Superman (1903) act 2

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• To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Men, Creative

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

  Carl Sagan

  Perfect, Instruments

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.51, Ballantine Books

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• Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of categories, and they are already fictions, analogical fictions, or labels, which give us the same pleasure as children receive when they are told the "name" of a thing.

  Havelock Ellis

  Children, Names, Giving

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.

  Hugh Miller

  Jealous, Dark, Degrees

  Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio”, p.127

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• Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

  Peter Ritchie Calder

  Education, Knowledge, Judgment

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• Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.

  Lewis Howard Latimer

  Success, Pride, Achievement

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• Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

  Thomas Sowell

  Success, Failure, High Standards

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

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• Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Failure, Achievement

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• I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Book, Airports

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• I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. Long experience proved that there were great drawbacks found generally before they could be got commercial; but here was something there was no doubt of.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Long, Doubt

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• Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

  Francis Quarles

  Happiness, Success, Men

  'Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man' (1638) no. 4

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• What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place.

  Wolfgang Ostwald

  Together, Matter, Energy

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• When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of a country. And because education is so critical to success in this country, if we don't figure out a way to create greater mobility across social class, I do think it will be the beginning of the end.

  Shirley M. Tilghman

  Success, Education, Country

  "Opening the Door for Low-Income Students to Overcome 'Aristocracy' of Higher Ed". www.pbs.org. September 08, 2013.

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• Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.

  Chris Mooney

  Weather, Climate, Events

  "Dear Donald Trump: Winter Does Not Disprove Global Warming" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. January 02, 2014.

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• My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.

  Bill Bryson

  Work Out, Royal, Climate

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• Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

  Francis Bacon

  Running, Powerful, Goal

  Francis Bacon (1858). “The Works”, p.79

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• An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs ... He who in studying all the different species of insects that are injurious to us, would seek means of preventing them from harming us, would seek to cause them to perish, proposes for his goal important tasks indeed.

  Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur

  Mean, Animal, Goal

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• Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

  Stewart Alsop II

  Believe, Technology, Goal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.

  Aharon Katzir

  Exercise, Goal, Construction

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• Through scientific experiment they'd demonstrated that there may be such a thing as a life force flowing through the universe - what has variously been called collective consciousness or, as theologians have termed it, the Holy Spirit.

  Lynne McTaggart

  May, Spirituality, Consciousness

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.28, Harper Collins

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