Science Quotes

There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.

The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once you've read, you never look at the world the same way again.

I hope to continue to inspire our nation's youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.