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Quotes About Science

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
~ Niels Bohr
Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
~ Max Planck
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.
~ David Whyte
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.
~ Richard Dawkins
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
~ Matthew Arnold
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.
~ Jacob Bronowski
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.
~ Story Musgrave
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
~ Auguste Comte
Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.
~ Linus Pauling
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.
~ Andrei Sakharov
Politics is applied biology.
~ Ernst Haeckel
You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.
~ George Wells Beadle
NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ
~ Stephen Colbert
Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
~ Aristotle
So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
~ Steve Case
I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
~ Dana Carvey
So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.
~ Annalee Newitz
.....science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.
~ Carl Phillips
Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.
~ James Lileks
I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
~ Iman
The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing is amply rewarded by public attention.
~ Robert J. Shiller