Quotes About Science

science fiction begins not with Gernsback, Wells, Verne or Shelley, but rather with the Protestant Reformation, when science as we now understand the term began to separate itself from magic as the idiom for fantastic voyages, utopias, future speculation and technological extrapolation.

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But perhaps exoneration via the complex and poorly understood root of genetics is missing the broader point that maybe we shouldn't abuse children.

Biologists sometimes get physics envy, because every time we find out one of our big rules – universal genetics, evolution by natural selection – things look more complex within them as soon as we begin to look.

This is an absence of evidence, which we scientists like to remind people is not the same as evidence of absence.

But we don't have more protein-coding genes than a chimpanzee. In fact, we have fewer genes than a roundworm. Or a banana.

Are we still evolving?' is a question that geneticists get asked a lot. Here is the answer: yes.

I do have brown eyes, something that I had established a few years ago, with the less exciting technology of a mirror. Nevertheless, it is nice to have it confirmed at a molecular biological level. The

Nowadays, only the willfully ignorant dismiss the truth that we evolved from earlier ancestors.

In the genomes of the dead we can see natural selection at work.

though the data should be pure and straightforward, science is done by people, who are never either.

despite what you might have read, genetics won't tell you how smart your kids will be, or what sports they should play, or what gender person they might fancy, or how they will die, or why some people commit acts of heinous violence and murder. Just as important as what genetics can tell us is what it can't.

However, if your understanding of a science extends only to the point where your political preconceptions are supported, then you are an ideologue, not a scientist.

The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, but is ill informed and, worse, spellbound by a science that is barely understood by experts, let alone tourists.

scientific research, one that underwrites every single aspect of the life sciences. "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution

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There are plenty of scientific theories why they do this, none of which can be summarized as "because they can," disappointingly.

I will show you that despite what you might have read, genetics won't tell you how smart your kids will be, or what sports they should play, or what gender person they might fancy, or how they will die, or why some people commit acts of heinous violence and murder. Just as important as what genetics can tell us is what it can't.

Adam Rutherford

The key finding was that the sequences of DNA generated implied that the human that led to us diverged from those who led to the Neanderthals around 500,000 years ago.

We are all Rumsfeldian, if we are doing science right.

Doubt is the cornerstone of science. It gives you a sure footing from which to build an argument based on data.

The greatest achievement of the Human Genome Project was working out exactly how little we knew— known unknowns. Once you know what you need to know, the future is laid out in front of you. And so, the map was sketched, and the landscape was set out— where to explore, and what we might be hunting for.

There are no essential genetic elements for any particular group of people who might be identified as a "race." As far as genetics is concerned, race does not exist.