Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

Science Quotes by STEPHEN JAY GOULD-1420119932

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does



Science Quotes by STEPHEN JAY GOULD-1420119911

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.



Science Quotes by STEVEN WEINBERG-1420119896

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.



Science Quotes by THOMAS H. HUXLEY-1420119324

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter onlyas a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.



Science Quotes by SIR WILLIAM BRAGG-1420116472

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.



Science Quotes by THOMAS H. HUXLEY-1420115030

The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.



Science Quotes by ALBERT EINSTEIN-1420113810

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.