Quotes About Science

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter.

If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles.

Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

I got into nuclear science when I was about 10 years old I was fascinated by the stuff. I was fascinated by the reactions and the power inside these atoms that we had the capability to unlock.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind.

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.

Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.

With only the dimmest memories of a high-school course or two in general science, they find themselves confronting dialog which seems largely derived from the frontiers of theoretical physics and a group of characters who might, conceivably, enjoy chatting with Albert Einstein, but certainly no one less advanced. A few pages of all this obscurity and the hapless first reader ... closes the magazine or book ... and abandons the field to the children ...

During the second half of the nineteenth century', wrote Gilbert's younger brother Cecil, 'the middle class was absolutely bubbling over with ideas…. It was rioting in its new-found intellectual liberty as heartily as the men of the Restoration rioted in their new-found moral liberty. Everywhere you found households where new theories of politics, philosophy, religion, or science were eagerly welcomed, debated, and

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

La ciencia declaró ilegítimo e insubsistente todo el saber que la tradición nos había legado sobre nuestro cuerpo, la confinó al territorio de la superstición, y se erigió en la única propietaria de un saber válido sobre la salid y la enfermedad, sobre la vida y la muerte.