Quotes About Science

near-Earth objects that approach the Earth's orbit to within 0.05 AU, which is roughly the distance that a near-Earth object's trajectory can be gravitationally altered by a single planetary encounter.

a system of postulates, mathematical relationships, data, and inferences that form a basis for describing a scientific process or sequence of events. These models need to be tested against new observations to see how well they hold up. That's a big part of the scientific method.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases.

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there's an Intelligent Designer.

There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.

I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved'.

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

I want to thank God because that's who I look up. He's graced my life with opportunities. He's shown me that it's a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.