Quotes About Perspective

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

Art isn't a science or a job; it's alive.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.

As for explaining mathematical phenomena it opens the question: explaining to whom? humans?, other computers?

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

The answers are always inside the problem, not outside.

The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn't being political, it is being selfish.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.