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Quotes About Science

In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
~ Ben Bernanke
The laissez-faire attitude to science education has resulted in a disaster exemplified by the fact that more young people are opting for media studies than physics.
~ Harry Kroto
The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.
~ Jose Mujica
The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.
~ Helen Sharman
People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.
~ Helen Sharman
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
~ Sebastian Thrun
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
~ Ahmed Zewail
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
~ Ray Kurzweil
Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.
~ Richard Dawkins
Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.
~ Mary Roach
Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
~ Adam Cohen
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
~ Alexis Carrel
The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.
~ Eric Kandel
As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.
~ Steven Sinofsky
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
~ John Langdon
Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.
~ Richard Dawkins
The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.
~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
~ Samuel Butler
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
~ Gustave Flaubert
It is the public that is illiterate in science and math, a lazy press, and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.
~ Rex Tillerson
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.
~ Thomas Kuhn
Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.
~ Henry Charles Carey
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
~ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
If you are conscious to yourself that you possess more knowledge upon some subjects than others of your standing, reflect that you have had greater opportunites of seeing the world, and obtaining a knowledge of Mankind than any of your cotemporarys, that you have never wanted a Book, but it has been supplied you, that your whole time has been spent in the company of Men of Literature and Science. How unpardonable would it have been in you, to have been a Blockhead.
~ Abigail Adams