Quotes About Science

Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies.

DOES THE PROGRESS OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE TEND TO GIVE ANY ADVANTAGE TO THE OPINION OF NECESSITY (OR DETERMINISM) OVER THAT OF THE CONTINGENCY OF EVENTS AND THE FREEDOM OF THE WILL? NO. - ESSAY FOR THE ERANUS CLUB ON SCIENCE AND FREE WILL

this determinism says that in every case the result is determined by the previous condition of the subject we are looking at. Our free will at the best is like that of Lucretius's atoms — which at quite uncertain times and places deviate in an uncertain manner from their course. the atoms can swerve so there's always the small possibility even for air molecules of not being forced to follow the determined laws. - ESSAY FOR THE ERANUS CLUB ON SCIENCE AND FREE WILL

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be the exclusive property of the gods might one day be ours. . . .

When asked by a student if he believes in any gods ] Oh, no. Absolutely not... The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

At lunch Francis winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

People say we are playing God. My answer is: If we don't play God, who will?

On the other hand, the sun of Naples might be conducive to learning something about the biochemistry of the embryonic development of marine animals.

Yo tengo la intuición de que los humanos somos sencillamente grandes simios con unos cuantos interruptores genéticos exclusivos -y especiales-.

This was a rational reflection of the fact that experimentation increases the variability of results.

We were unable to discover either a vaccine or a treatment for the Flare.

CRUEL es bueno. CRUEL es bueno...

with finding a cure for some disease?" "It has everything in the world to do with it." Rat Man sighed

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

Research is about conducting experiments, accepting and even enjoying failures, but going on and on, following a theory garnered from observing the science. Invention is often more about endurance and patient observation than brainwaves.