- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art, like real estate, is half science, half gut. We go to a lot of art fairs. We have two full-time art experts who help me make all the decisions about how to build the corporate and personal collection and what we put in our developments. We don't let interior designers pick art for us.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know the science behind climate change. I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it's man-made or not.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're doing a film called 'Interstellar,' at some point - the idea was to be grounded in the science as much as possible - but with a name like 'Interstellar,' you had better go somewhere big and bold.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.
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- Nov 07, 2020