Quotes About Science

Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating useful regularities and seeks truth, it is obliged to legitimate the rules of its own game.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Science too proceeds by lantern-flashes; it explores nature's inexhaustible mosiac piece by piece. Too often the wick lacks oil; the glass panes of the lantern may not be clean. No matter : his work is not in vain who first recognizes and shows to others one speck of the vast unknown.

La divergence entre l'Homme et les Chimpanzés, ou entre l'Homme et le couple Chimpanzé-Gorille, ne date que de 7 millions d'années environ

Les spécialistes reconnaissent de six à onze espèces d'Hominines antérieures à l'homme.

papers. Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles.

I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

how you spend your money has a strong influence on how happy — or unhappy — it will make you. And, again, there's science behind this.

Despite popular assertions to the contrary, science tells us that money can buy happiness. To a point.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.

The warming of the planet is not waiting for consensus-building.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

The best ideas in science are always simple, elegant, and unexpected

There is a common misconception that the human brain is the pinnacle of billions of years of evolution. This may be true if we think of the entire nervous system. However, the human neocortex itself is a relatively new structure and hasn't been around long enough to undergo much long-term evolutionary refinement.

Seriously, though, in this day and age I don't know why we're still cutting open frogs to see what's inside them. If somebody tells me there's a heart and intestines inside a frog, I'm willing to take their word for it.

Seriously, though, in this day and age I don't know why we're still cutting open frogs to see what's inside them. If somebody tells me there's a heart and intestines inside a grog, I'm willing to take their word for it.

It might be inexplicable. It might be beyond the limits of my senses to capture—or my science or my intellect—but I still believed I was in the presence of some kind of living creature, one that practiced mimicry using my own thoughts. For even then, I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projecting them back at me, as a form of camouflage.

In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as part of a celestial tapestry revolving around the earth but as individual planets had had to wrench their imaginations--and thus their analogies and metaphors--out of a grooved track that had been running through everyone's minds for hundreds and hundreds of years.

subtle or bold, The Weird acknowledges that our search for understanding about worlds beyond our own cannot always be found in science or religion and thus becomes an alternative path for exploration of the numinous.

art is question without answer; religion is question and answer, where the answer cannot be explained but only repeated; science is question and answer, where the answer can be explained in other terms but is abstract, universal and does not deal with particulars; and history is question and answer, where the answer is concrete and particular, but where the totality of answers about particulars can never be assembled.

The state exists for man,not man for the state.The same may be said ofscience. These are old phrases,coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value .I would hesitate to repeat them,were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten,especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.