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Science Quotes
Science taken seriously, and occasionally not.
Most of these quotes come from people genuinely engaged with science, recalling museum trips that sparked early curiosity and admiring mathematics for tackling problems that actually have solutions. For quotes on scientific humor specifically, see Jokes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It must be admitted that science has its castes. The man whose chief apparatus is the differential equation looks down upon one who uses a galvanometer, and he in turn upon those who putter about with sticky and smelly things in test tubes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history - the academic word for flag making and heraldry.
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
- Grandfather
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I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Glassco Commission was really not interested in good science. It was interested in good accounting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many science people feel groups like WHO are there to do a job and not to be dealt with in a political way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice.
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- Nov 07, 2020