Quotes About Science

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

Priroda nikada ne krši svoje zakone.

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and, above all others, the most useful.

Wenn auch der menschliche Geist durch vielfache Erfindungen mit verschiedenen Instrumenten auf dasselbe Ziel zugeht, nie wird er eine Erfindung machen, die schöner, leichter und kürzer wäre als die Natur.

He had searched to find a scientific basis for art, and discovered it in the imitation of nature, based on rational experience.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, firsthand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to these senses such as the existence of god or of the soul or similar things over which there is always dispute and contention

Quelli che s'innamorano della pratica senza la scienza, sono come i nocchieri che entrano in naviglio senza timone o bussola, che mai hanno certezza dove si vadano. Sempre la pratica dev'essere edificata sopra la buona teorica, della quale la prospettiva è guida e porta, e senza questa nulla si fa bene.

A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument

Ritual, art, poesy, drama, music, dance, philosophy, science, myth, religion are all as essential to man as his daily bread: man's true life consists not alone in the work activities that directly sustain him, but in the symbolic activities which give significance both to the processes of work and their ultimate products and consummations.

Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and technics: they relate, not to external means and consequences, but to internal transformations, and unless it produce these internal transformations the work of art is either perfunctory or dead.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th Century science has been the discovery of human ignorance.

Just because I believe in science doesn't mean I ignore superstition. Sometimes there's a basis for those superstitions.

As a scientist, Ling had to keep an open and curious mind, to explore all sorts of permutations. It seemed to her that there were endless variations for love, too, if only people would allow their minds to consider them. Ling opened her eyes again. "Why…?" Ling stopped, afraid to say this aloud. "Why can't we be something new?

Mabel's parents had said that it was bigotry dressed up to look like science.

Billions are spent for neurophysiological research to control human behavior, he reflected. Beauty shops would be cheaper.

you study phenomena beyond the bounds of regular science: investigate the strange and inexplicable, prove things most people would label occult or supernatural.

Prior to deciding whether science intrinsically tells the truth, we must ask, again and again, whether it is possible, or prudent, to isolate facts from values. This is a crucial question to ask, because it bears upon the kind of progressive society we want to promote.

However, these criteria, admirable as they are, are insufficient for a liberatory, postmodern science: they liberate human beings from the tyranny of absolute truth and objective reality, but not necessarily from the tyranny of other human beings. In Andrew Ross's words, we need a science that will he publicly answerable and of some service to progressive interests 0991, 29).

Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, and not an effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. I believe in morality, in justice, in humanitarianism.

I have a lab filled with millions of dollars' worth of equipment, and I can tell you none of it works as well as a good dog's nose. I've witnessed canines hitting on hundred-year-old remains. What they even smell, none of us can tell you. At that point, there's no organic matter left; the bone is little more than a dried sponge. But the dogs always know.

Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.