Quotes About Relevance

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will be limited.

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

A scientist first has to presuppose any theory based on available relevant data. In terms of such presupposition, a scientist begins his journey of scientific exploration as a philosopher.

The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

Cuanto mejor protegidos de la contaminación están los valores preservados en el pensamiento, menos relevancia tienen para la vida de aquellos a quienes deberían ser de utilizada.

Part of what I've learned is that if it isn't life and death, it isn't life and death.

Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion—its message becomes meaningless.

Religion is an answer to man's ultimate questions. The moment we become oblivious to ultimate questions, religion becomes irrelevant, and its crisis sets in.

Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.

This is the problem with branding: it has become more important than the thing it purports to brand.

But concern not thou thyself vainly with matters that are of no advantage.