Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: science

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Vexillography is a very big word! Vexillography is really the high science and art and understanding of flags and their history - the academic word for flag making and heraldry.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.

Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions.

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

I grew up in Saudi Arabia and India and Cyprus, and I lived in a war-zone myself, and, I mean, I had a pretty bizarre, I guess, nomadic childhood, and so I was really drawn to international relations and political science.

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

We live in a world economically, socially, and culturally dependent on science not only functioning well, but being wisely applied.

I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

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.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare.

My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

Science is organized knowledge.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won't take long. She'll look you in the eye and say one word: 'Money.'

Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.

Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.