Science Quotes (2773 Quotes)
- Feeling a bit nervous, as most people do at the prospect of seeing a doctor, I thought I would buy on my way to him something soothing to prevent an accelerated pulse from misleading credulous science.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Pale Fire")
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- A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by that token, not much of a money-making venture for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.
(Tom Robbins, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues")
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- A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia")
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- Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness")
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- Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.
(Viktor E. Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning")
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- Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best to be completely scientific about the whole thing and refuse to believe in either ghosts or the laws of science. That way you're safe. That doesn't leave you very much to believe in, but that's scientific too.
(Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values")
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- The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you actually don't know.
(Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values")
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- Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
(Ray Bradbury, "The Martian Chronicles")
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- Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian
(Richelle Mead, "Shadow Kiss")
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- When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.
(Philip K. Dick, "The Man in the High Castle")
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- I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my lifetime. And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are real and can occur without regard to the natural order of things.
(Nicholas Sparks, "The Notebook")
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- But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.
(Milan Kundera, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being")
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- It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.
(Mary Shelley, "Frankenstein")
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