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Quotes About Science

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~ Jason Fagone
He didn't care about the answers so much as the questions. He enjoyed science because it was an interesting way of being alive.
~ Jason Fagone
Dee and his contemporaries quested for nothing less than Total Knowledge—and all sciences were thought to be reflections of, and ways to ascend back to, the mind of God.
~ Jason Louv
The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics.
~ Jason Love
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
~ Jasper Fforde
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gogh, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
~ Jasper Fforde
The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective.
~ Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz
The solution to pollution is dilution. It is very logical that if a chemical is bothering you, you should increase the flow of good air to dilute the level of the chemical.
~ Dr. Sherry Rogers
Nature abhors a vacuum;
~ Drew Karpyshyn
Mankind has moved away from the heart of the world to the logic of the mind, and their belief is in the chemist, the physicist, and the mathematician. Science has proven to them that all this ancient belief in ceremony is simply ignorance.
~ Drunvalo Melchizedek
To geologists, it's death, taxes, and climate change that are the true constants of life on Earth.
~ E. Kirsten Peters
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee , has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty . how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou answerest them only with spring)
~ E.E. Cummings
but granted that it's nothing paradoxically enough beyond mere personal pride which tends to compel me to decline to admit i've died) seeing your bald intellect collywobbling on its feeble stem is believing science=(2b)?n herr professor m
~ E.E. Cummings
When I was very young, I was suitably impressed to learn that, appearances notwithstanding, the whale is not a fish. Nowadays these questions of classification move me less; and it does not worry me unduly when I am assured that history is not a science. This terminological question is an eccentricity of the English language. In every other European language, the equivalent word to 'science' includes history without hesitation.
~ E.H. Carr
the real importance of the Darwinian revolution was that Darwin, completing what Lyell had already begun in geology, brought history into science.
~ E.H. Carr
Emily supposed the modern world was fortunate in the progress of science. But she could not help but feel at this moment the impropriety of male invasiveness. She knew he was working to save this poor woman, but in her mind, too, was a sense of Wrede's science as adding to the abuse committed by his fellow soldiers. He said not a word. It was as if the girl were no more than the surgical challenge she offered.
~ E.L. Doctorow
19. I wrote in my notebook that even if all the possible scientific questions are answered, our problem is still not touched at all.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Once you have a theory, it's not too hard to find evidence to substantiate it, at least until some other theory comes along.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I would say that the simple reason why the majority of scientists are not creative is not because they don't know how to think but because they don't know how to stop thinking!
~ Eckhart Tolle
How can a single human cell measuring 1/1,000 of an inch in diameter contain instructions within its DNA that would fill 1,000 books of 600 pages each? The more we learn about the workings of the body, the more we realize just how vast is the intelligence at work within it and how little we know.
~ Eckhart Tolle
man's emotional tensions might constitute an electromagnetic field similar to a radiation field in the atmosphere.
~ Ed Warren
Mr. Charles Darwin, who looked a bit like God which is interesting, wrote a book called You're a Fucking Monkey, Mate. He played around with the title for a while: We're All Fucking Monkeys; You're a Fucking Monkey, Mate; Get Out of My Face, You Fucking Monkey. And he ended up with On The Origin of Species.
~ Eddie Izzard
It is quite simple, being nothing more than a radium generator diffusing radio-activity in all directions to a distance of a hundred yards or so from the flier. Should
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
I know that the average human mind will not believe what it cannot grasp, and so I do not purpose being pilloried by the public, the pulpit, and the press, and held up as a colossal liar when I am but telling the simple truths which some day science will substantiate.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs