Famous quotes

Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,808 quotes Who coined it · How we decide

English Italiano Polski עברית Français Português فارسی Español 中文 Русский Deutsch العربية हिन्दी 日本語 Ελληνικά Latina

Science

Love Friendship Happiness Hope Fear Courage Death Life Time War Peace Freedom Truth Wisdom Knowledge Science Art Music Nature Money Work Power God Beauty Laughter Family Success and failure Change Dreams Books and reading

“Mankind is a sexual and tool-using species. So it's never old news to deal with the intersection of human desire and ingenuity. As biohacking, sexually enhanced bodies, genetic utopias and the plethora of gender have long been the focus of literature, science fiction and, increasingly, pornography, we explore the possibilities that fictional and authentic bodies have to offer.”
Johannes Grenzfurthner (born 1975) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in 'Kill Screen', 2012
“Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds of men; and that fallacy, through rejected by their judgments, continues to exert and influence over their acts.”
William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872) first seen 1856 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Introductory Lecture on the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics" (1856), p. 4
“This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics.”
William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Manual of Applied Mechanics, (1858) London and Glasgow : Richard Griffin and Company, p. 630
“Sir John Herschel's "Outlines of Astronomy"—[is] a work in which one of the most profound mathematicians in the world has succeeded admirably in divesting of all mathematical intricacy the explanation of the principles of that natural science which employs higher mathematics most.”
William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.”
Ashot Nadanian (born 1972) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: S'pore Chess News, 7 September 2010
“What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet—only science would put them on the same tree.”
Wendelin Van Draanen (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The primary aim of science is to find... new truth. The search is the more successful the more it is directed towards... truth for its own sake, regardless of... possible use or application. ...If everything given to us by research were to be taken away, civilization would collapse and we would stand naked, searching for caves again.”
Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is life-oriented. ...[A]rmies and armaments are death-oriented. Armies are instruments of organized manslaughter... All its tools are the tools of death... instruments of killing. ...[A] society dominated by the military is death-centered, as pointed out by in his famous Moratorium Speech.”
Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ref: George Wald - A Generation in Search of a Future, Vietnam Moratorium Speech (March 4, 1969)
“If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the tendency of the study of science to make us patient, humble and attentive to the smallest things. Is not this part of religion?”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Religion is one thing, and science another. What if they conflict? Religion is a matter of faith. Faith always gives satisfaction, whereas the truth does not always do so. As for me, I follow Anatole France who enjoins us to keep religion in one compartment of our head and skepticism in another.”
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in “Don Pañong – Genius" by A.V.H. Hartendorp in Philippine Magazine (September 1929), p. 211.
“Maybe by doing this work and putting my name on the front line, like a science project, will also afford me the opportunity to embarked into a very special opportunity to show that growing up poor doesn't have to mean being unworthy or forgettable. This is a very important lesson for those who propagate such narrow minded universally accepted inaccuracies about poverty.”
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth — that we have culture.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am trying to convince people--not only the public, but lawmakers and people in power--that investing in the frontier of science, however remote it may seem in its relevance to what you're doing today, is a way of stockpiling the seed corns of future harvests of this nation... Advancing a frontier--history has shown--has advanced a culture ever since the industrial revolution got underway.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At an interview with Stephen Colbert at Montclair Kimberley Academy on January 29th, 2010.
“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most useful. For, by knowledge derived from this science, not only the bulk of the Earth is discovered . . . ; but our very faculties are enlarged with the grandeur of the ideas it conveys, our minds exalted above [their] low contracted prejudices.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher; a community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars. (From the first Cosmos: ASO episode, Standing Up in the Milky Way.)”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ibn al-Haytham was the first person ever to set down the rules of science. -S01E05”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Muslim Spain had written one of the brightest pages in the history of Medieval Europe. Her influence had passed through Provence into the other countries of Europe, bringing into birth a new poetry and a new culture, and it was from here that Christian scholars received what of Greek philosophy and science they had to stimulate their mental activity up to the time of the Renaissance.”
Thomas Adam (1701–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.”
Karen Armstrong (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is merely possible. The imagination has thus been the cause of our major achievements in science and technology as well as in art and religion.”
Karen Armstrong (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different…quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.”
Jennifer Beals (born 1963) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in The Guardian (8 September 2007)
“In the field of science fiction or fantasy, morality—when it enters a book at all—is almost always either thoughtlessly liberal (you can’t judge other cultures) or thoughtlessly illiberal (strong men must rule) or just plain thoughtless (killing people is bad).”
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Books" (review column), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1968
“There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.”
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Image of Women in Science Fiction" (1970)
“Science fiction is a natural, in a way, for any kind of radical thought. Because it is about things that have not happened and do not happen. It's usually placed in the future, but not always. It's very fruitful if you want to present the concerns of any marginal group, because you are doing it in a world where things are different.”
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Dialogue: Samuel R. Delany and Joanna Russ on Science Fiction” in ‘’Callaloo’’, No. 22 (Autumn, 1984)
“As I see it, there are three stages of science fiction. The first is inventing things: telepathy-geez, wow, gosh!; robots-wow! The second stage is what [Isaac] Asimov does with his robot stories, where you construct a plausible society for this to happen in. And the third when you use it for some other purpose. I think that Delany and Disch and Le Guin and Gene Wolfe and I are third-stage writers.”
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control”
Anthony Stafford Beer (1926–2002) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 239 cited in: A. Ghosal (1978) Applied cybernetics: its relevance in operations research. p. 2 and many other sources.
“According to the science of cybernetics, which deals with the topic of control in every kind of system (mechanical, electronic, biological, human, economic, and so on), there is a natural law that governs the capacity of a control system to work. It says that the control must be capable of generating as much "variety" as the situation to be controlled.”
Anthony Stafford Beer (1926–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The aim of management science is to display the best course of action in a given set of circumstances, and this must include all the circumstances.”
Anthony Stafford Beer (1926–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity.”
Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918–1989) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nicolae Ceaușescu, Builder of Modern Romania and International Statesman (1983)
“Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.”
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?”
Michel Chossudovsky (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in [Albert Einstein, Letter "Einstein in Singapore." Manchester Guardian, October 12, 1929]
“I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of every day [sic] thinking.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Physics and Reality" (as translated by Jean Piccard) in the Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 221, Issue 3 (March 1936), at p. 349
“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Phyllis Wright (January 24, 1936), published in Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children (Prometheus Books, 2002), p. 129
“How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Hans Muehsam (9 July 1951), Einstein Archives 38-408, quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010) by Alice Calaprice, p. 404
“Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 16 "The Laws of Science and the Laws of Ethics" (1950)
“The more I study science, the more I believe in God.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in a WSJ 1994 article Science Resurrects God.
“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to an atheist (24 March 1954), p. 43
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to California student E. Holzapfel (March 1951) Einstein Archive 59-1013, p. 57
“Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Lettre à Maurice Solvine, by A. Einstein (Gauthier-Villars: Paris 1956)
“Wait a minute! I am not a mystic. Trying to find out the laws of nature has nothing to do with mysticism, though in the face of creation I feel very humble. It is as if a spirit is manifest infinitely superior to man's spirit. Through my pursuit in science I have known cosmic religious feelings. But I don't care to be called a mystic.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mere formulation of a problem is far more often essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and makes real advances in science”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Denoting", Mind, Vol. 14, No. 56 (October 1905), pp. 479–493; as reprinted in Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901–1950, (1956)
“The facts of science, as they appeared to him [Heraclitus], fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself: in science, at least, his respect for authority is on the whole beneficial.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Education, Especially in Early Childhood (1926), Ch. 2: The Aims of Education, p. 63