Quotes About Science

Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle...

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.

Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.

Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really.

Here, in this book, I will try to show that the guru is actually like the horizon. A horizon is apparent—a line where earth and sky appear to meet. But in reality, they never meet. There is only an illusion of an ending point, a point of reference where we can stand and measure and assess. In this way, the guru is like a horizon between wisdom and method, myth and truth, science and faith. D

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.

Observations always involve theory.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.