Quotes About Science

ONE must sometimes believe what one cannot understand. That is the method of the scientist as well as the mystic: faced with a universe which must be endless and infinite, he accepts it, although he cannot really imagine it. For there is no picture in our minds of infinity; somewhere, at the furthermost limits of thought, we never fail to plot its end. Yet—if there is no end? Or if, at the end, we are only back at the beginning again?

Real science is creative, as much so as painting, sculpture, or writing.Beauty, variously defined, is the criterion for art, and likewise a good theory has the elegance, proportion, and simplicity that we find beautiful. Just as the skilled artist omits the extraneous and directs our attention to a unifying concept, so the scientist strives to find a relatively simple order underlying the apparent chaos of perception.

The electrical forces turned the key that unlocked the repressed genes.

Information, and a monumental amount of it, is clearly passed from the body to the blastema.

If the current controlled the way nerves worked in the brain as well as in the rest of the body, then it must regulate consciousness to some extent.

This experiment demonstrated unequivocally that there was a real electric current flowing along the salamander's foreleg, and it virtually proved that the current was semiconducting. In fact, the half-dozen tests I'd performed supported every point of my hypothesis.

Even after Marsh and Beams proved Weiss wrong in 1946, it took many more years for the scientific community to accept the fact that neuron fibers do orient themselves along a current flow. Today the possible use of electricity to guide nerve growth is one of the most exciting prospects in regeneration research.

Two phenomena in particular triggered the quantum revolution: the photoelectric effect and the structure of the atom.

An original and explosive book. It starts out by making psychology, the science of the mind, what's it actually is—as exciting and suspenseful as a good mystery story. —George B. Leonard

Foucault calculated that the number of degrees through which the pendulum's plane of oscillation would shift in twenty-four hours would be 360 degrees times the sine of the latitude—which thus provided a way to determine the person's north-south location on the globe.

Genetic research shows that the medical model is all wrong when it comes to psychological problems.

As we enter the era of personal genomics, they will eventually affect all of us.

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

The Professor shook his head. 'On the contrary, my motives are most simple, to advance science and to combat evil.

What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

Most anti-vaccine books claim that all shots are bad, the diseases aren't really anything to fear, and as long as you live a natural and healthy lifestyle, you don't have to worry. I think this is a very irresponsible approach to the vaccine issue. Vaccines are beneficial in ridding our population of both serious and nonserious diseases.

Economics, he told Roy Harrod in 1938, is 'a science of thinking in terms of models joined to the art of choosing models which are relevant to the contemporary world… Good economists are scarce because the gift of using "vigilant observation" to choose good models… appears to be a very rare one'.

Economics could not be an exact science, because the number of variables was too great, and stability of variables over time could not be guaranteed. As he was to put it later, it is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Two books of essays also appeared – Essays in Persuasion (1931) and Essays in Biography (1933). The first collected what Keynes, in his introduction, called 'the croakings of twelve years – the croakings of a Cassandra who could never influence the course of events in time'. A notable feature of the second is Keynes's use of short lives of men of science to ponder and delineate the character of scientific genius.

Scientists are supposed to be dispassionate, cool-headed, and unemotional when they evaluate their data. But it's hard for me to avoid a sense of awe when I'm hunting fossils.

Bones aren't made of calcium Here's what bones are made of: • Calcium • Zinc • Potassium • Selenium • Magnesium • Boron • Manganese • Phosphorus • Silica • Sulfur • Iron • Chromium • And traces of 64 other minerals. That's what bones are made of, a total of 76 ionizing minerals.

There are, in effect, two things: to know and to believe one knows. To know is science. To believe one knows is ignorance.

I know nothing about economics and—from evolutionary logic—could not have predicted a thing about the collapse of 2008, but I have disagreed for thirty years with an alleged science called economics that has resolutely failed to ground itself in underlying knowledge, at a cost to all of us