Quotes About Science

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

We must always couch our current scientific knowledge as "currently unfalsified.

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

There is no reason for a sound faith to be irrational. A useful faith should not be blind, but should be well aware of its grounds. A sound faith should be able to use scientific investigation to strengthen itself. it should be open to the spirit not to lock itself up in the letter. A nourishing, useful, healthful faith should be no obstacle to developing a science of death.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Normal science," Kuhn writes about the limitations of such scientific belief systems, "the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend almost all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like.

there's a telling answer to the question of what Albert Einstein claimed was so remarkable it could be labeled as both "the most beautiful thing we can experience" and "the source of all true science and art." His contention: the mysterious.

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.

Most tellingly, it was a time when the ideas of William Graham Sumner, a professor of political and social science at Yale, dominated American social thought. Sumner brought Charles Darwin's thinking to America and twisted it into a theory to fit the times. Few Americans living today have read any of Sumner's writings, but they had an electrifying effect on America during the last three decades of the nineteenth century.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

The Soul's Upward Yearning by Fr. Robert Spitzer, the intergalactically smart Jesuit who once served as president of Gonzaga University and who now directs the Magis Center on matters of faith, reason, and science,

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Software is like a science. We show correctness by failing to prove incorrectness, despite our best efforts.

Science does not work by proving statements true, but rather by proving statements false.

there is always the chance that some experiment will show that those laws of motion and gravity are incorrect. That is the nature of scientific theories and laws: They are falsifiable but not provable.