Quotes About Science

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Quite soon, as we move from genes to the proteins that they code for, and then on to the interactions between these proteins, the problems become seriously complicated.

Much contemporary popular writing on genetics assumes that it should be possible to reconstruct living systems from the bottom up, starting with the raw DNA code. And that is precisely the sort of procedure we have just seen to be so entirely impracticable. Clearly, we need first to narrow the options. And there is only one way to do that; we must observe how nature itself has narrowed the options.

Whether or not you agree with the outcome, the tremendous amount that the Manhattan Project accomplished in such a short amount of time–just under three years–is astonishing. It makes you wonder what other kinds of things could be accomplished with that kind of determination, effort, and financial and political support. What if the kind of money, manpower, and resources that went into the Manhattan Project went into the fight against hunger? Cancer? Homelessness?

The more she thought about it, the more she realized: Oak Ridgers had kept the most amazing secret ever.

Ida Noddack's theories and Lise Meitner's explanations had resulted in a chain reaction of their own, science colliding with military and industry, splitting into compartmentalized and mobilized units, each moving along its own trajectory, ready to make sand jump in the desert.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

The birth of a novel invention can only be compared with the creation of a beautiful painting or an exquisite perfume, in my view, It's an amazingly perfect blend of art and science, unexpected, unforeseen, unprecedented and truly divine. Long live the creativity and the spirit of inventiveness!

Two Chemists went in a bar. One Chemist asked the waiter to get him H2O, and the second Chemist said that he would have H2O too. The waiter told them that they don't serve H2O2 because it's a powerful oxidizing agent.

Un résumé de l'ensemble de la vie sur terre se trouve juste en face de nous, dans les processus perpétuel de re-oxydation et de l'oxydation des atomes d'hydrogène dans une goutte d'eau.

We, the humans, have been exploiting poor voiceless animals for thousands of years - in the name of religion, in the name of science, in the name of sports, in the name of fashion, and last but not the least, in the name of food. Hopefully some day this will come to an end, once we, the humans, appreciate the fact that even the animals have rights too, just like us, the humans. Let's hope that day will arrive soon! - Deo, on 149th anniversary of foundation of ASPCA, April 10, 2015.

When a Chemical Engineer tries to flirt with a girl, he tells her that she must be made of Copper and Tellurium because she's so CuTe.

Many technical people consider estimating difficult; and indeed, at this stage, it is definitely as much art as it is science.

The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.

Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.