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Quotes About Balance

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!
~ Richard P. Feynman
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.
~ Christian Boltanski
Study the science of art and the art of science.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
~ Immanuel Kant
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.
~ Annie Jump Cannon
Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.
~ Robert Moog
Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.
~ John Scott Russell
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
~ Claude Bernard
But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.
~ Aristotle
The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.
~ John Burroughs
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
~ George Wald
If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.
~ Isaac Asimov
The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.
~ Wilhelm Johannsen
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.
~ Garrett Hardin
This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.
~ Malcolm Campbell
Combine science and humanities.
~ Steve Jobs
I don't think science is necessarily incompatible with mystical or spiritual sensibilities. I often weigh them equally in my thinking, which sometimes finds itself into the work.
~ Keith Carter
Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.
~ Eric Allman
To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.
~ Vannevar Bush