Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
8 more views from Stephen Leacock
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
30 more wisdom & wit from Gustave Flaubert
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
11 sayings from Rebecca West
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
5 more wisdom & wit from Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
46 views from George Santayana
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
3 thoughts from Johan Huizinga
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
68 more quotes from Samuel Butler
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
2 more quotes from Werner Heisenberg
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
3 other quotes from Charles Babbage
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
4 more quotes from Louis Pasteur
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
58 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
75 thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
3 more quotes from Paul Klee
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
4 quotes from Louis Pasteur
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
58 thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
14 wisdom & wit from Heinrich Heine
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
2 more quotes from Edward Sapir
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
6 quotes from Evan Esar
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
67 thoughts from Francis Bacon
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
3 quotes from Edouard Manet
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
14 other quotes from Stendhal
Man lives for science as well as bread.
40 wisdom & wit from William James
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
20 wisdom & wit from Thomas Aquinas
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
6 quotes from Jacob Bronowski
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
41 other quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
3 views from Samuel Alexander
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
16 other quotes from Isaac Asimov
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
19 more quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
41 more wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science is but an image of the truth.
67 quotes from Francis Bacon
That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
6 other sayings from Jacob Bronowski
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
16 wisdom & wit from Isaac Asimov
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
6 views from Jacob Bronowski
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
16 quotes from Isaac Asimov
The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
19 quotes from Anton Chekhov
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
16 more sayings from Isaac Asimov
There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
10 more quotes from Edward Abbey
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
5 more thoughts from Isaac Newton
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
21 quotes from W. H. Auden
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
25 quotes from Simone Weil
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
3 wisdom & wit from Linus Pauling
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
6 more quotes from Charles Lindbergh
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
5 quotes from Theodore Sturgeon
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
7 quotes from Galileo Galilei
In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
5 thoughts from Theodore Sturgeon
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
5 more views from Amy Lowell
It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
19 wisdom & wit from Alfred North Whitehead
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
2 more quotes from Arthur Keith
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
22 other quotes from Henry Adams
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
9 thoughts from Howard Nemerov
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
5 views from Andre Breton
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
5 other quotes from Theodore Sturgeon
Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
14 more quotes from Bertolt Brecht
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
13 quotes from Francois Rabelais
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
3 quotes from Jules Verne
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
22 sayings from Henry Adams
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
4 other views from George Meredith
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
31 quotes from Gertrude Stein
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
45 wisdom & wit from John Ruskin
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
2 sayings from Clyde Tombaugh
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
21 wisdom & wit from W. H. Auden
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
3 quotes from Josef Albers
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
11 more quotes from Rene Descartes
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
2 quotes from Robert Quillen
In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
2 thoughts from Hugh Walpole
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
3 quotes from Wernher von Braun
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
105 sayings from Albert Einstein
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
3 other views from Wernher von Braun
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
105 more quotes from Albert Einstein
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
6 more sayings from Luther Burbank
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
2 other wisdom & wit from Wilhelm Reich
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
16 other views from Erich Fromm
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
3 more thoughts from Wernher von Braun
Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
4 more quotes from George Allen, Sr.
A satellite has no conscience.
3 thoughts from Edward R. Murrow
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
7 more sayings from Alan Perlis
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
7 other quotes from Alan Perlis
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
5 quotes from Henry Fielding
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
16 more quotes from David Hume
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
2 other sayings from Imogen Cunningham
I've lost my faith in science.
21 views from Bette Davis
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
17 thoughts from John Burroughs
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
20 wisdom & wit from Herbert Spencer
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
5 quotes from Henri Poincare
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
5 thoughts from Henri Poincare
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
9 more quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nature engenders the science of painting.
6 views from Robert Delaunay
Politics is not an exact science.
16 quotes from Otto von Bismarck
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
17 more thoughts from John Burroughs
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
5 more quotes from Henri Poincare
Science is facts.
5 quotes from Henri Poincare
Science is not addressed to poets.
9 other wisdom & wit from George Henry Lewes
Science is organized knowledge.
20 sayings from Herbert Spencer
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
13 quotes from Immanuel Kant
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
8 quotes from Karl Kraus
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
8 quotes from Thomas Hobbes
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
9 sayings from George Henry Lewes
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness but a belief is always sensitive.
7 more views from James Anthony Froude
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
3 thoughts from Carl Friedrich Gauss
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
2 quotes from Max Planck
You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
2 quotes from Imogen Cunningham
Art is made to disturb, science reassures.
2 quotes from Georges Braque
Art is science made clear.
10 other quotes from Wilson Mizner
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
33 thoughts from Thomas Huxley
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
22 quotes from James Dyson
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
33 views from Thomas Huxley
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
135 other wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate science fiction.
22 views from James Dyson
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
22 other quotes from James Dyson
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.
33 views from Thomas Huxley
One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
43 wisdom & wit from Alexander Pope
Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
53 quotes from Honore de Balzac
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
45 thoughts from Bertrand Russell
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.
33 views from Thomas Huxley
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
33 other sayings from Thomas Huxley
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
33 quotes from Thomas Huxley
Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
52 more wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.
33 other quotes from Thomas Huxley
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
33 other quotes from Thomas Huxley
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
33 more sayings from Thomas Huxley
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
45 other quotes from Bertrand Russell
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
33 sayings from Thomas Huxley
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
4 quotes from Gregory Bateson
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
45 wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
33 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Huxley
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
33 sayings from Thomas Huxley
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
22 views from James Dyson
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
4 other wisdom & wit from Kenneth L. Pike
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
6 other sayings from Jacques Yves Cousteau
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
4 other views from Mary McCarthy
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
15 wisdom & wit from Norman Cousins
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
6 thoughts from Ashley Montagu
Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
7 more wisdom & wit from Sydney Smith
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
9 more wisdom & wit from Adam Smith
Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
31 views from Helen Keller
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
59 views from Elbert Hubbard
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
6 more quotes from Ashley Montagu
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
6 views from Jacques Yves Cousteau
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Art is I science is we.
7 quotes from Claude Bernard
Experimentation is an active science.
7 more wisdom & wit from Claude Bernard
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
19 quotes from E. B. White
If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
8 more thoughts from Mary Baker Eddy
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
7 wisdom & wit from John Calvin
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
11 views from William Osler
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
7 other quotes from Claude Bernard
Science does not permit exceptions.
7 quotes from Claude Bernard
Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
45 views from Aldous Huxley
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
6 other thoughts from Karl Popper
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
6 wisdom & wit from Karl Popper
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
115 other thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
45 quotes from Aldous Huxley
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
27 more quotes from Dave Barry
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
5 more quotes from William Bernbach
I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.
5 quotes from William Bernbach
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
4 views from Edward Thorndike
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
20 other quotes from Herbert Hoover
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
11 other views from Charles Kettering
Politics is the science of urgencies.
2 other thoughts from Theodore Parker
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
4 views from Edward Thorndike
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
2 other views from H. P. Blavatsky
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
22 other sayings from Samuel Richardson
We especially need imagination in science.
8 other quotes from Maria Mitchell
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
5 quotes from Maria Montessori
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
2 other quotes from Ivan Pavlov
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
60 more thoughts from H. L. Mencken
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
6 views from Francis Parker Yockey
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
7 other views from Swami Sivananda
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
2 wisdom & wit from Arthur Holly Compton
Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.
2 quotes from Arthur Young
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
12 sayings from Miguel de Unamuno
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
24 other thoughts from Henri Frederic Amiel
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
15 wisdom & wit from Cyril Connolly
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
12 thoughts from Miguel de Unamuno
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
9 more sayings from John Dewey
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
16 quotes from Paul Valery
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
13 quotes from Jean Rostand
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
2 sayings from Emily Post
Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
3 more quotes from Henri Bergson
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
13 views from Jean Rostand
Science is all metaphor.
6 other views from Timothy Leary
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
4 more quotes from Aleister Crowley
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
16 other sayings from Paul Valery
Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
8 more views from Lewis Mumford
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
4 sayings from A. J. Liebling
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
9 more sayings from Niels Bohr
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
32 more sayings from William Blake
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
25 quotes from Will Durant
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
18 sayings from Baruch Spinoza
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
22 sayings from Jimi Hendrix
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
4 wisdom & wit from Marie Curie
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
2 more views from Konrad Lorenz
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
25 quotes from Will Durant
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
9 sayings from Carl Sagan
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
9 more quotes from Carl Sagan
There are no shortcuts in evolution.
7 thoughts from Louis D. Brandeis
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
9 views from Carl Sagan
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
9 more wisdom & wit from Carl Sagan