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Quotes About Science

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.
~ Harold Lewis
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization
~ Thomas Huxley
We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
~ Tony Abbott
I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.
~ Orrin Hatch
Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.
~ Edward Forbes
When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
~ Francis Collins
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
~ G. H. Hardy
No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.
~ Michael Shermer
I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.
~ Stanley Fish
Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.
~ William Jennings Bryan
Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.
~ Frederick William Robertson
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.
~ George Coyne
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
~ George Eliot
We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life.
~ James Hansen
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.
~ John B. S. Haldane
Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.
~ John Boehner
I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life.
~ Debbie Harry
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
~ E. O. Wilson
We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?
~ Frank J. Tipler
We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.
~ Adam Riess
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
~ Anne McCaffrey
A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?
~ Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.
~ Buzz Aldrin