642 quotes found
“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”
“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more”
“Our true mentor in life is science.”
“Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in ...”
“Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t ...”
“It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the fr...”
“Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.”
“My name is Ferrum. I was the first, born of the forges, when mankind first began to experiment with iron. I rose from their imagination, from their ambition to conquer the world with a metal that c...”
“We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which me...”
“Science, I am told, is making great strides, experimenting, groping after things which no sane man has ever dreamed of before – without being burned alive for it.”
“He’s a scientist. He’s never cried. He flips through Googled image searches of burn victims while he touches himself.”
“You're going to see a lot of it. People getting ahead unfairly because of the category into which they were born: male or white or straight or rich. I'm in a few of those categories myself, which i...”
“Life […] is scientific, that’s what it is.”
“The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small c...”
“The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.”
“When you think about it, the Big Bang's a big like school, isn't”
“Information, contemplated over time, is knowledge.”
“The ‘stream’ we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the ...”
“For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.”
“Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.”
