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Quotes About Science

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
~ Zahi Hawass
The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.
~ David Lee
Together, NASA and Hubble are opening new vistas on the universe.
~ Heidi Hammel
If you love epic space opera, you shouldn't miss 'Interstellar'.
~ Annalee Newitz
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
~ Charles Babbage
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
~ Oscar Wilde
JACK: Yes, but said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary. ALGERNON: It usen't to be, I know - but I daresay it is now. Science is always making wonderful improvements in things.
~ Oscar Wilde
Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope, in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am quite content with philosophic contemplation. But, as the nineteenth century has gone bankrupt through an over-expenditure of sympathy, I would suggest that we should appeal to science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
~ Oscar Wilde
La ventaja de las emociones es que nos llevan por el mal camino, y la ventaja de la ciencia es que excluye la emoción.
~ Oscar Wilde
I would suggest that we should appeal to Science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of Science is that it is not emotional.
~ Oscar Wilde
Science! He [Dr. MacBride] doesn't know what Christianity is yet. I've entertained many guests, but none - The whole secret, broke off Judge Henry, Lies in the way you treat people. As soon as you treat men as your brothers, they are ready to acknowledge you - if you deserve it - as their superior. That's the whole bottom of Christianity, and that's what our missionary will never know.
~ Owen Wister
It was a dashed tricky thing, of course, to have to decide on the spur of the moment. I was reading in the paper the other day about those birds who are trying to split the atom, the nub being that they haven't the foggiest as to what will happen if they do. It may be all right.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
have to decide on the spur of the moment. I was reading in the paper the other day about those birds who are trying to split the atom, the nub being that they haven't the foggiest as to what will happen if they do. It may be all right. On the other hand, it may not be all right. And pretty silly a chap would feel, no doubt, if, having split the atom, he suddenly found
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may hear the infallible counsel of the Inner Voice.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
structure of creation. Nature herself is maya; natural science must perforce
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The science of today is a light matter….Those amazing truths that our descendants will discover are even now all around us, staring us in the eyes, so to speak; and yet we do not see them. But it is not enough to say that we do not see them; we do not wish to see them — for as soon as an unexpected and unfamiliar fact appears, we try to fit it into the framework of the commonplaces of accepted knowledge, and are indignant that anyone should dare to experiment further.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
All creative scientists know that the true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions they uncover the laws of truth.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Sir P. C. Roy's History of Hindu Chemistry, in B. N. Seal's Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus, in B. K. Sarkar's Hindu Achievements in Exact Science and his The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology, and in U. C. Dutt's Materia Medica of the Hindus. 2
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The Sama Veda of India contains the world's earliest writings on musical science. The
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The existence of such rays coming from man and all living things has been suspected by scientists for many years. Today is the first experimental proof of their existence. The discovery shows that every atom and every molecule in nature is a continuous radio broadcasting station. . .
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
La meta de la ciencia del yoga es aquietar la mente, para que pueda escuchar sin distorsión alguna el infalible consejo de la Voz Interior.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Science thus remains in a perpetual flux, unable to reach finality; fit indeed to discover the laws of an already existing and functioning cosmos but powerless to detect the Law Framer and Sole Operator. The majestic manifestations of gravitation and electricity have become known, but what gravitation and electricity are, no mortal knoweth. 3 To
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
It is never a question of belief ; the only scientific attitude one can take on any subject is whether it is true . The law of gravitation worked as efficiently before Newton as after him. The cosmos would be fairly chaotic if its laws could not operate without the sanction of human belief.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda