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Quotes About Science

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
All we have to do when reading Bleak House is to relax and let our spines take over. Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I cannot separate the aesthetic pleasure of seeing a butterfly and the scientific pleasure of knowing what it is.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Next day, after lunch, I went to see our doctor, a friendly fellow whose perfect bedside manner and complete reliance on a few patented drugs adequately masked his ignorance of, and indifference to, medical science.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I am not concerned with the moron, the ordinary hairless ape, who takes everything in his stride; his only childhood memory is of a mule that bit him; his only consciousness of the future a vision of board and bed. What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will keep him back...Any true scientist (not, of course,the fraudulent mediocrity, whose only treasure is the ignorance he hides like a bone) should be capable of experiencing that sensuous pleasure of direct and divine knowledge. He may be twenty and he may be eighty-five but without that tingle there is no science.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Ngày nay, anh ph?i là má»™t nhà khoa h?c n?u mu?n gi?t ng??i.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Caress the details, the divine details. In high art and pure science detail is everything.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The artist, like the scientist, in the process of evolution of art and science, is always casting around, understanding a little more than his predecessor, penetrating further with a keener and more brilliant eye—and this is the artistic result.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will keep him back.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Some scientific] experiments…tell us that what we consider the objective world depends in some measure on our own conscious processes. There is no fixed eternal reality……… true understanding is not to be achieved with the rational mind.
~ Larry Dossey
Unfortunately, the immune system is the system we know least about.
~ Larry Kramer
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
~ Larry Wall
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. Itis a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone." -Rod Serling, from The Twilight Zone.
~ Larry Wilson
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. Itis a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone." -Rod Serling, from The Twilight
~ Larry Wilson
Mi séquito estuvo compuesto por diez sabios colmados de ciencia, los cuales permanecían callados , sabiendo lo que tanto se olvida, que el no saber es la única ciencia
~ Laura Restrepo
Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
~ Laurel Clark
Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.
~ Laurel Clark
We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.
~ Laurel Clark
I know what pheromones are! But that's mumbo jumbo. You're just horny, I'm just horny. It's not science.
~ Lauren Dane