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Quotes About Science

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips
~ Nicole Krauss
It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.
~ Peter Medawar
The true science and study of mankind is man.
~ Pierre Charron
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
~ Henry David Thoreau
God, there's teaching biology and teaching sexuality, and it's two separate things. They mix it and make it more of a morality thing where it's like, "A man and woman have a baby."
~ Jen Kirkman
With no specific procedure, man arrived at sweeping conclusions about the universe that have proven to be true.
~ John Henrik Clarke
Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
~ John Ruskin
My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
~ John Collison
I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.
~ Harold E. Varmus
Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.
~ Paul A. Offit
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
~ Thomas Huxley
No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.
~ Thomas Browne
There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.
~ David Baltimore
Why don't they make more science fiction movies? The answer to any question starting, Why don't they- is almost always, Money.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules
~ Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.
~ Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.
~ Jean-Martin Charcot
Botany, the eldest daughter of medicine.
~ Johann Hermann Baas
When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.
~ Shinya Yamanaka
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
~ Johannes Kepler
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.
~ H. L. Mencken
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.
~ C. V. Raman