Science Quotes - Page 5

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

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

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.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my pistol.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

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.

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.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Now with the allocation and the understanding of the lack of understanding, we enter into a new era of science in which we feel nothing more than so much so as to say that those within themselves, comporary or non-comporary, will figuratively figure into the folding of our non-understanding and our partial understanding to the networks of which we all draw our source and conclusions from.

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.