Quotes About Science

but their offspring, called mules, are sterile.

Por qué hay algo, en lugar de nada? ¿Qué modeló las leyes fundamentales de la física? ¿Qué es la conciencia y de dónde procede? No tenemos respuestas para estas preguntas, y damos a nuestra ignorancia el nombre grandioso de Dios.

What potential did Europe develop in the early modern period that enabled it to dominate the late modern world? There are two complementary answers to this question: modern science and capitalism.

scientific complex and technological wizardry. All successful late modern empires cultivated scientific research in the hope of harvesting technological innovations, and many scientists spent most of their time working on arms, medicines and machines for their imperial masters.

Hasta la era moderna, los humanos achacaban las enfermedades al mal aire, a demonios malévolos y a dioses enfurecidos, y no sospechaban de la existencia de bacterias ni virus

Darwin and Dawkins

Statistics courses are now part of the basic requirements, not just in physics and biology, but also in psychology, sociology, economics and political science

This might sound like science fiction, but the world's first clean hamburger was grown from cells—and then eaten—in 2013. It cost $330,000.

Genesis represents not just religion but also science—one

when civilization began, the gods who were worshipped—the focus of the act of being "religious"—were none other than the Anunnaki/Nefilim, who were the source of all manner of knowledge, alias science, on Earth.

Clay, they discovered, has two basic properties essential to life: the capacity to store and the ability to transfer energy.

As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as we would like to believe. Historical inquiry and behavioral science have demonstrated the "banality of evil" -- that is, under certain conditions and social pressures, ordinary people can commit acts that would otherwise be unthinkable.

I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.

Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more.

There is no science without spirituality; spirituality has no meaning without science.

Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. Thus, designers must balance both the logic and lyricism of humanity every time they design something, a task that requires a singularly mysterious skill.

You wouldn't believe the things that go missing in these labs. Remind me to tell you the story about the radioactive spider sometime.

The name explains the structure: carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen bond into a ring-shaped structure called a cresol (also found in creosote), and phosphorus hangs on to the ring like an exhausted swimmer gripping a life preserver.

Government reporters may cover City Hall. Education reporters may write about schools and school boards. Science writers may report on asteroids one day, HIV vaccine experiments the next, sonar technology the next, a universe without boundaries.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.'-Marie Curie

I have ceased to think even of barnacles!' -Charles Darwin

a way of eating that merges fresh food with ancient food wisdom and the latest science.

although the mechanism isn't clear yet, strenuous exercise changes the categories of genes that prevent the development of chronic inflammation, which more and more, is believed to be the underlying cause of many chronic conditions.

our cells contain an epigenome that tells genes to switch on or off.