Quotes About Science

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

Ja, we zijn bevrijd van pastoren en hun dwingende moraal, maar nee, we zijn niet vrij, integendeel. Er is een nieuwe moraal met haar eigen hogepriesters, die bovendien meer dwang uitoefenen dan de vorige, omdat ze zich als wetenschappelijk en dus als niet voor discussie vatbaar voordoen. Het enige gebod van die moraal is systematic effectiveness, meteen de mantra van de eerste hogepriester, de manager. De tweede pastoor is de nieuwe psychotherapeut, wiens mantra 'aanpassing' luidt.

These days, we forget that fascism was a supposedly progressive ideology that sought to create the perfect society based on the science of the time.

Het is dan ook geen toeval dat Aristoteles zijn visie op kennis uitwerkt in twee boeken die gewijd zijn aan ethiek, want kennis is daaraan ondergeschikt. Waardevrije kennis bestaat niet, evenmin als wetenschap zonder passie.

Knowing causation is far more useful than knowing association.

having trouble believing it's more difficult for the cancer industry to find a cure for cancer than it was for science to find a way to go to the moon. But why would the industry want to find a cure when it's so lucrative not to?

chemotherapy does not work for the majority of cancers.' And

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Science is closer to poetry than it is to our vital lives.50

There is no god, and that's the simple truth. If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.

Science is so important because it's a way to find truth, but the truth doesn't depend on it. Reality exists outside of humans. Religion does not.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of poetical faculty, proportionally circumscribed those of the internal world; and man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself a slave.

Science struck the thrones of earth and heaven, which shook, but fell not.

Science, Poetry, and Thought Are thy lamps; they make the lot Of the dwellers in a cot So serene, they curse it not.

Man would have been too happy, if, limiting himself to the visible objects which interested him, he had employed, to perfect his real sciences, his laws, his morals, his education, one-half the efforts he has put into his researches on the Divinity.

If ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, a knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

Nature does not count nor do integers occur in nature. Man made them all, integers and all the rest, Kronecker to the contrary notwithstanding.

In the school of hard knocks, where passion and performance are far more important than answering questions correctly, the best student is probably 50 percent better at science than the second best. Not 2 percent better. This is incredibly important.

Everything you do inside an AdWords account is a little science experiment.

hence the conclusion is frequently implied and often explicitly drawn that the Puritans looked upon philosophy as a sensual indulgence, upon classical authors as contemptible heathens, upon science as a work of the Devil and a hindrance to faith. Neither the friends nor the foes of the Puritans have shown much interest in their intellects, for it has been assumed that the Puritan mind was too weighted down by the load of dogma to be worth considering in and for itself.