3 December 2020 Werner Heisenberg The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
3 December 2020 John Charles Polanyi It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people’s experience.
3 December 2020 Serge Lang Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
3 December 2020 Galileo Galilei It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
3 December 2020 Marcus V. Pollio Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.
3 December 2020 Robert Barclay He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?
3 December 2020 Steve Wozniak Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
3 December 2020 Jared Diamond We’re uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It’s classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
3 December 2020 Stanislav Grof Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.
3 December 2020 Clyde Tombaugh Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn’t fit the findings of science.
3 December 2020 Michael Shermer We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life’s pilgrimage.
3 December 2020 Freeman Dyson Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
3 December 2020 John Charles Polanyi Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
3 December 2020 Octavia Butler I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
3 December 2020 James Lovelock Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
3 December 2020 Michael Shermer Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Carroll In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It’s so schizophrenic.
3 December 2020 Friedrich August von Hayek This means that to entrust to science – or to deliberate control according to scientific principles – more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
3 December 2020 John von Neumann Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
3 December 2020 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft – not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
