Quotes About Science

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

One egg, one embryo, one adult - normality. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult. Making ninety-six human beings grow where one grew before. Progress.

Medical Science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs.

They seemed to have imagined that scientific progress could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value; all the rest secondary and subordinate.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy man left.

Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by ignoring the uniqueness of particular events, concentrating on what they have in common and finally abstracting some kind of "law," in terms of which they make sense and can be effectively dealt with.

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

Pilkington, at Mombasa, had produced individuals who were sexually mature at four and full grown at six and a half. A scientific triumph. But socially useless. Six-year-old men and women were too stupid to do even Epsilon work. And the process was an all-or-nothing one; either you failed to modify at all, or else you modified the whole way. They were still trying to find the ideal compromise between adults of twenty and adults of six. So far without success. Mr Foster sighed and shook his head.

It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.

Lord Edward took a scientific interest in the sexual activities of axolotls and chickens, guinea pigs and frogs; but any reference to the corresponding activities of humans made him painfully uncomfortable.

is only by means of the sciences of life that the quality of life can be radically changed. The sciences of matter can be applied in such a way that they will destroy life or make the living of it impossibly complex and uncomfortable; but, unless used as instruments by the biologists and psychologists, they can do nothing to modify the natural forms and expression of life itself.

But truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As

Truth's a menace, science is a public danger. As dangerous as it's been beneficent.

No deseamos cambios. Todo cambio constituye una amenaza para la estabilidad. Ésta es otra razón por la cual nos mostramos tan reacios a aplicar nuevos inventos. Todo descubrimiento de las ciencias puras es potencialmente subversivo; incluso la ciencia debe ser tratada a veces como un enemigo.

Yes, Mustapha Mond was saying, that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Brave new world

All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

Near Shepherd's Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive.

the goddess of Applied Science has presented the world with another gift, more precious even than these—the means of dissociating love from propagation.

A gramme in time saves time