Quotes About Science

Schultz's group has shown that the magnitude of an anticipatory dopamine rise reflects two variables. First is the size of the anticipated reward. A monkey has learned that a light

Back to mutations. Can there be mutations in DNA stretches constituting promoters? Yes

About forty per cent of all strokes are unexplained. They're a mystery, like life itself.

In der Wissenschaft kommt es alle paar Jahre vor, daß etwas, das bis dahin als Fehler galt, plötzlich alle Anschauungen umkehrt oder daß ein unscheinbarer und verachteter Gedanke zum Herrscher über ein neues Gedankenreich wird.

A man of knowledge knows that nothing is true and that the whole truth will be revealed only at the end of time. Science is amoral. All our glorious thrusting of ourselves into the Unknown gets us out of the habit of being personally concerned with our conscience; in fact, it doesn't even give us the satisfaction of taking our conscience entirely seriously.

Ich bin immer in einem Mann-Mannesverhältnis zu den sogenannten großen Ideen gestanden; vielleicht auch zu den mit Recht so genannten: Ich glaube mich nicht zur Unterordnung geboren, sie haben mich gereizt, sie zu stürzen und andere an ihrer Stelle zu setzen. Ja, vielleicht bin ich gerade von dieser Eifersucht zur Wissenschaft geführt worden, deren Gesetze man in Gemeinschaft sucht und auch nicht für unverbrüchlich ansieht.

Is it actually the case that no one can tell you with any degree of authority when the life of a human being actually begins? No, it is not. Treating the question as some sort of grand mystery, or expressing or feigning uncertainty about it, may be politically expedient, but it is intellectually indefensible. Modern science long ago resolved the question. We actually know when the life of a new human individual begins.

The purpose of science in understanding who we are as humans is not to rob us of our sense of mystery, not to cure us of our sense of mystery. The purpose of science is to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate that mystery. To always use it in a context where we are helping people in trying to resist the forces of ideology that we are all familiar with.

that this must be the earliest science-fiction story still in existence, for surely the tale of a quest for an immortality serum qualifies as science fiction.

Bones and rocks are eloquent storytellers, if you know how to listen to them.

Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.

Today, we need greater financial intelligence to simply survive. The idea that "it takes money to make money" is the thinking of financially unsophisticated people. It does not mean that they're not intelligent. They have simply not learned the science of money making money.

I don't believe in protein," I said. "I think it's a myth, like vitamins. I don't believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it's all a myth.

Halrloprillalar's tale of the bacterium that eats superconductor is in our records, the Hindmost said.

We have sent no probes, of course.

The period tells us the mass, of course

he doesn't have the normal share of miterosis.

Many dinners emerging from the scientific kitchen were entirely white…

Richard either didn't hear me, or chose to ignore it. Smart, handsome, junior high science teacher, degree in preternatural biology, what more could i ask for? Give me a minute and I'd think of something.

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I flip ahead in the textbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.

One of the seeds has split its shell and reaches a white hand upward. An apple tree growing from an apple seed growing in an apple. I show the little plantseed to Ms. Keen. She gives me extra credit. David rolls his eyes. Biology is so cool.

Cutting dead frogs is cool.

No one thing can explain everything; though everything can illuminate something. God, I must be still drunk. If God were anything he would be an art. Sculpture or medicine. But the immense extension of knowledge in this our age, the growth of new sciences, makes it almost impossible for us to digest the available flavours and put them to use.