Quotes About Science

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

Como eu disse, semelhantes exemplos não adiantariam nada. Onde o trabalho científico é mantido sob a jurisdição da moralidade, não é guiado pelos fatos — mas pelos códigos morais. (...) Esse tipo de "ciência objetiva" é uma das mós presas ao pescoço de uma humanidade que se está afogando.

It would not bother me if another scientist wanted to reduce my thirst for knowledge to the biological function of a puppy who goes around sniffing at everything. Indeed, it would make me happy to be biologically compared to a lively and lovable puppy.

Foi Galileu, não Nero, quem assentou os fundamentos da tecnologia; Pasteur, e não Napoleão, quem combateu as enfermidades; Freud, e não Schickgruber, quem sondou as profundidades psíquicas. Foram esses cientistas, em suma, que asseguraram a nossa existência. Os outros apenas abusaram das realizações de grandes homens para destruir o processo vital. As raízes da ciência natural penetram mais fundo que qualquer transitório tumulto fascista.

Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data that are likely to be compatible with the beliefs they currently hold. The confirmatory bias of System 1 favors uncritical acceptance of suggestions and exaggeration of the likelihood of extreme and improbable events. If

Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data that are likely to be compatible with the beliefs they currently hold.

Sometimes scientific progress leaves us more puzzled than we were before.

effortful mental activity appears to be especially expensive in the currency of glucose.

La linguistica gli sembrava la scienza adatta per le persone che hanno la pedanteria necessaria per la matematica, ma non l'intelligenza. Per le persone che si inventano una propria logica, secondo il bisogno.

Progetti, sbuffò Gauss. Chiacchiere, piani, intrighi. Tiritere con dieci prìncipi e cento accademie prima di poter appoggiare un barometro da qualche parte. Quella non era scienza. Ah, esclamò Humboldt, e cos'era allora la scienza? Gauss tirò dalla pipa. Un uomo da solo seduto alla sua scrivania. Un foglio di carta, tutt'al più un cannocchiale davanti alla finestra con un cielo terso. E quest'uomo che non si arrende fino a quando non capisce. Forse quella era scienza.

Logical Positivism: An early-twentieth-century school of philosophy that limits the scope of philosophy to the scientific method (empirical verification) and logic. Everything else philosophy once considered, such as metaphysics and ethics and theology, is tossed out the window as unverifiable and therefore meaningless.

Recently, the scientific gods have grown kinder to psychologists.

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

Scientific reductionism has threatened the spiritual aspects of medical practice from within, by denying the existence of the transcendent. The industrialization of health care now threatens the spiritual aspects of medical practice from without, denying the importance of the spiritual. Yet

No science can explain the drawn-out phases of a large-dose ibogaine trip, the twenty-hour passage from vision to insight, experienced almost universally.

Sin un temperamento científico el ciudadano es vulnerable a la tentación de lo mágico, a la seducción de la pasión y a la tiranía del dogmatismo. Demasiada gente muere por fe y mata por dogma.

La imperfección de la ciencia es la clave de su progreso. Sin lugar para nuevas ideas, la ciencia de hoy sería la misma que la ciencia de ayer.

El debate no puede ser sobre si la ciencia es buena o mala, sino más bien al servicio de quién debe estar, aceptando que el conocimiento es patrimonio de la humanidad. El conocimiento obtenido por la ciencia es de un valor ético neutral, pero no así la tecnología, ya que su utilización puede hacerse con fines moralmente acceptables o reprobables.