Quotes About Challenge

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible.

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure