Quotes About Science

It should be understood that doctors did not want to damage their patients—as a profession they were sworn to do no harm—but if they committed dastardly acts, they were more easily pardoned if something positive had come of the exercise. Experiments on humans were usually excused if the results of the study were substantial, the process had an element of science to it, and the physicians were correct in their expectations. 19

Even infants were used in research studies; for example, two-day-old babies were fed bismuth, a metal-like substance used in the manufacture of some pharmaceuticals, and then exposed to extensive X-rays to chart the course of different foods in their stomachs.

To those who believe the dead do not visit them, I say you have cataracts in your soul. I am a man of science, yet I believe in guardian angels and the haunting by ghosts.

Observatory n, A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

Gravitación, s. Tendencia de todos los cuerpos a acercarse unos a otros con fuerza proporcional a la cantidad de materia que contienen; la cantidad de materia que contienen se determina por la tendencia a acercarse unos a otros. Bello y edificante ejemplo de cómo la ciencia, después de hacer de A la prueba de B, hace de B la prueba de A.

The world," he said, "grows hourly more and more sceptical of all that lies beyond its own narrow radius; and our men of science foster the fatal tendency. The Phantom Coach

Science is a system of rational thought devised to investigate the world and establish the laws by which it operates. The scientist uses those laws to achieve an effect. One which might easily appear magical in the eyes of the primitive.

Magic is the art and science of forcing things to behave in ways that are not in their nature.

Maldita ciencia. Es aún peor que la magia". - Caul Escalofríos

We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion.

We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion. We should be brave enough to contemplate our lives, do what we thought was "outside the box," and do it repeatedly. When we do that, we are on our way to a greater level of personal power.

anything that's repeatable is science.

In fact, the heart produces the strongest magnetic field in the body - five thousand times greater in strength than the field produced by the brain.

From apples to black holes, the shape of a torus is a recurring pattern of creation in nature.

Éste es el modelo más realista de un átomo. Materialmente es «nada», pero potencialmente lo es todo.

They came up with that number because genes manufacture (and supervise the production of) proteins—and the human body manufactures 100,000 different proteins, plus 40,000 regulatory proteins needed to make other proteins. So the scientists mapping the human genome were anticipating that they'd find one gene per protein, but by the end of the project, in 2003, they were shocked to discover that, in fact, humans have only 23,688 genes. From

wanted to give people scientific information and then provide them with the necessary instruction on how to apply that information so that they could achieve heightened degrees of personal transformation. Science is, after all, the contemporary language of mysticism. I learned that the moment you start talking in the language of religion or culture, the moment you start quoting tradition, you divide your audience members. But science unifies them and demystifies the mystical. And

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Can we teach people to accomplish the same thing by teaching them how the placebo really works?

DANIEL G. AMEN, M. D., autor de Cambia tu cerebro, cambia tu vida

What the BLEEP Do We Know!?

Se ve que los átomos se componen en un 99,999999999999 por ciento de espacio vacío.

We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion. We should be brave enough to contemplate our lives, do what we thought was "outside the box," and do it repeatedly. When we do that, we are on our way to a greater level of personal power. True empowerment

Albert Einstein creó su famosa ecuación E = mc2, que evidenció que la energía y la materia están tan inextricablemente ligadas que son lo mismo.