Quotes About Science

arts become frivolous. Science grows cold and inhumane. There are no heroes, only celebrities. Social bonds are broken. People no longer care for each other, but only for what they can get from each other.

The unity of humanity can be explained in a mystical way, as Emerson did with his term "over-soul" (see below); but it can also be put into scientific terms. Science has revealed that all human beings belong to one species, with the same anatomy and brain structure. We're all part of one family; descended, in fact, from one common ancestor. Racial and cultural differences are only secondary and surface—the unity of humanity is primary and fundamental.

Wonder generates enthusiasm, which is the highest state of character. It's what makes mere curiosity about nature grow into an all-consuming passion. The history of science is full of examples of enthusiasm. Every schoolchild knows the story of Archimedes, who stepped into his bath and realized that water displacement could be used to measure the volume of any object; he then took off running through the streets like a madman, yelling, "Eureka! I've found it!

One class live to the utility of the symbol, esteeming health and wealth a final good. Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol, as the poet and artist and the naturalist and man of science. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified; these are wise men.

So far, I've spoken of four major benefits of studying natural science: it sends us outdoors, which aids our health; its discoveries drive invention and manufacturing; it's a way of learning truths about the world; and it points the way to wisdom.

This sense of harmony between the outside and inside worlds doesn't fade as scientific knowledge increases. Instead, with each new law that science reveals, the analogies between nature and ourselves grow deeper. Every discovery about the universe brings us a greater understanding of ourselves.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator." —Louis Pasteur

The person who demands a sign and at the same time has already determined that anything that cannot be explained scientifically is meaningless is not merely stacking the deck; he is losing at his own game.

Atheists seem to exercise their reductionistic tendencies selectively. If religion stands in the way of saving people, these people have infinite worth. But if the scientist stands in the way of preserving human life, the embryo is "nothing more than a dot.

Men became scientific because they expected law in nature and they expected law in nature because they believed in a lawgiver.

Chet Raymo is professor of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. He is a convinced naturalist with a strong mystical bent. Few writers in our time are able to open up vistas of grandeur in the world of objects and entities as he does. In his book Skeptics and True Believers:The Exhilarating Connection between Science and Religion, he illustrates in his brilliant and inimitable style the marvels that are all around us in this universe.

Think of this for a moment. In eighteen milliliters of water (about two swallows full), there are 6 x 1023 molecules of H2O. How much is 6 x 1023? A good computer can carry out ten million counts per second. It would take that computer two billion years to count to 6 x 1023. Look

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

The children guessed, if they did not whisper it, that all science fiction is an attempt to solve problems by pretending to look the other way. In

They quit trying too hard to destroy everything, to humble everything. They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. They never let science crush the aesthetic and the beautiful.

The processes we're going through are two sides of the same coin, because everything ends in mystery — the scientists have theories, and the theologians have myths, and they are both the same thing, because we end up in ignorance. … We have to think about the unthinkable, which is what religion does and science does, too.

Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.

He and thousands of others like him, if they had any sense, would go to Mars. See if they wouldn't! To get away from wars and censorship and statism and conscription and government control of this and that, of art and science!