Quotes About Science

Es más difícil romper un prejuicio que un átomo.

a recent study showed they were our closest relatives, sharing 98.7% of our DNA.

But at the time of transition, your guides, your guardian angels, people whom you have loved and who have passed on before you, will be there to help you. We have verified this beyond a shadow of a doubt, and I say this as a scientist. There will always be someone to help you with this transition.

mi trabajo con las enfermas esquizofrénicas me había demostrado que existe un poder sanador que trasciende los medicamentos, que trasciende la ciencia, y eso era lo que yo llevaba cada día a las salas del hospital.

Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last breath of his best friend Thomas Edison in a test tube and kept it evermore. It is on display at the Henry Ford Museum outside Detroit, like Galileo's finger in the church of Santa Croce, but Edison's last breath is an invisible relic.

If there's one thing Lucille hates, it's how science has to rain on whimsy's parade: Rainbows not a gift from leprechauns offering pots of gold, but only a trick of refraction. A blue sky not a miles-wide painting done by a heavenly hand, but molecules scattering light. Still, when Lucille sees the stars strewn across the sky on a night like tonight, they're diamonds, and she thinks they might end up under her bed yet. Maybe

If there's one thing Lucille hates, it's how science has to rain on whimsy's parade:

build-your-own-telescope

I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.

It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.

The bright red sap of the fei plant is meant to be useful for blood ailments." "The signature of all things," Alma murmured.

Later in life, when Alma was a woman of science, she would better understand how the introduction of any new element into a controlled environment will alter that environment in manifold and unpredictable ways, but as a child, all she sensed was a hostile invasion and a premonition of doom. Alma did not embrace her interloper with a warm heart. Then again, why should she have? Who among us has ever warmheartedly embraced an interloper?

It all called to mind the British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington's memorable explanation of how the universe works: "Something unknown is doing we don't know what." But the best part is: I don't need to know what.

Biology is destiny only for girls.

I'm here to ask you to fight for more funding for research on Alzheimer's. Please. I'm going to forget, so I need you to remember.

Pataphysics will be, above all, the science of the particular, despite the common opinion that the only science is that of the general. Pataphysics will examine the laws governing exceptions, and will explain the universe supplementary to this one; or, less ambitiously, will describe a universe which can be - and perhaps should be - envisaged in the place of the traditional one.

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.

From the early days of humanity, dogmatic theology, law, ethics, and science in its infancy, were the monopolies of one class and the source of their power.4

The energy of a body which is due to its position, is called potential energy. The energy of a body which is due to its motion, is called kinetic energy.

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

The laws of economics are to be compared with the laws of the tides, rather than with the simple and exact law of gravitation. For the actions of men are so various and uncertain, that the best statement of tendencies, which we can make in a science of human conduct, must needs be inexact and faulty.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.