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Quotes About Science

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
~ Stephen Leacock
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.
~ Trofim Lysenko
If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science.
~ Martin Rees
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
~ Claude Bernard
If you are teaching a kid about seasons, you can put it in a song. He will definitely take interest. I wish to put every physics formula into a song, and it will become very easy for the student to learn.
~ Shankar Mahadevan
In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions.
~ James Black
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
~ Taslima Nasrin
I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient.
~ Rick Smolan
There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up - the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
~ Pardis Sabeti
Any teaching of falsehoods in science classes should certainly be identified and stopped by school inspectors. School inspectors should be looking at science teachings to make sure they are evidence-based science.
~ Richard Dawkins
As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.
~ Saul Perlmutter
Australopithecus.
~ Richelle Mead
The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels, back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge.
~ Rick Bass
Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.
~ Rick Perlstein
The leading candidates for being the building blocks of dark matter are WIMPS, or "weakly interacting massive particles." They are called massive only in a relative sense, meaning they are larger than a proton or a hydrogen atom.
~ Rick Strassman
Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn't know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -­- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesn't get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesn't hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.
~ Ricky Gervais
Science is constantly proved all the time. You see, if we take something like any fiction, any holy book… and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book, and every fact, and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back, because all the same tests would [produce] the same result.
~ Ricky Gervais
If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.
~ Ricky Gervais
Science makes us understand how to stay alive longer - feelings give us the reason to want to
~ Ricky Gervais
Relax, man. If it's God you're talking about... he's been absent from the world of science since the very dawn of time.
~ Riichiro Inagaki
Biographical info on Rita ] Born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish family in which culture and love of learning were categorical imperatives, she abandoned religion and embraced atheism. She devoted herself to Science, getting to the point of renouncing marriage for scientific research. ...Unlike other people, Rita Levi Montalcini was a complete human being.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
The Age of Faith: and by 'faith' understand the denial of all scientific reasoning.
~ Rius
Philosophy started as Criticism of religious beliefs. By seeking logical reasons for the things in nature, mankind created the Science of philosophy…*
~ Rius
Even religion had to invent some kind of science for itself (Theology = The philosophy of divinity) To justify its existence.
~ Rius