Quotes About Science

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.

No two snowflakes are alike.

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

wanted—I needed—to know that I had indeed seen him, not some apparition conjured up by the Crawler, and I clutched at anything that would help me believe that. What convinced me the most wasn't the photograph—it was the sample the anthropologist had taken from the edge of the Crawler, the sample that had proven to be human brain tissue.

The photo had been taken by a member of the Séance & Science Brigade about a week or two before the Event that had created Area X. The photographer had gone missing when the border came down. It remained the only photo of Saul Evans they had, except for some shots from twenty years earlier, well before he'd come to the coast.

There had even been an informal group – the Séance & Science Brigade – dedicated to applying 'empirical reality to paranormal phenomenon.' … It was the S&SB that had in effect named Area X, identifying that coast as 'of particular interest' and calling it 'Active Site X' – a name prominent on their science-inspired tarot cards.

The Séance & Science Brigade, which had operated along that coast since the fifties, had been obsessed with the twin lighthouses.

the Séance & Science Brigade

the Séance & Science Brigade—dedicated to applying "empirical reality to paranormal phenomenon.

It was a feeling I often had when out in the wilderness: that things were not quite what they seemed, and I had to fight against the sensation because it could overwhelm my scientific objectivity.

It is less than five hundred years since an entire half of the world was discovered. It is less than two hundred years since the discovery of the last continent. The sciences of chemistry and physics go back scarcely one century.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.

Why continue to tolerate a kind of armchair skepticism that has everything to do with scientistic propaganda and nothing at all to do with honest, rigorously open-minded collection, classification, and theory building, that is, with real science and real humanistic inquiry?

Indeed, Ehrenreich makes it crystal clear throughout the book that she despises monotheism as a form of "deicide" that insists on killing every other god and leads eventually to modern science, which kills everything else.

The whole project of science," she explains, "is to crush any notion of powerful nonhuman Others," and the vocation of the scientist is "to keep all that was uncanny or unspeakable stuffed out of sight.

Vaccines save lives fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

Cartesian dualism served science well, at first: by ceding matters of the spirit to men of the cloth, it got the Church off the back of science, which for centuries afterward was perceived as less of a threat to religion's domain than it would otherwise have been (pace, Galileo). But Cartesian dualism was a disaster for moral philosophy, setting in motion a process that ultimately reduced human beings to automatons.