Quotes About Science

Science, literature, art, theology: it is all the same ridiculous, glorious, mysterious language.

Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren't we talking more about that?

Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.

According to research done by Mitchell Chang of the University of California, the likelihood of someone completing a STEM degree—all things being equal—rises by 2 percentage points for every 10-point decrease in the university's average SAT score.4 The smarter your peers, the dumber you feel; the dumber you feel, the more likely you are to drop out of science.

presenting long rows of data arrayed in complex charts and referring to this kind of gene or that kind of physiological process, and they themselves were talking instead about the mysterious and

If diet and exercise didn't explain the findings, then what about genetics?

Twentieth-century man has created his own fantasies through science (...). What fantastic achievements have thereby been made possible in the way of moving faster, growing richer, communicating more rapidly, mastering illnesses, and altogether overcoming the hazards of our earthly existence. But all the achievements have led to a true nature of our being: in other words, an alienation from God. If it were possible to live without God, it would not be worth living at all.

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

There is a science to living well and art to experiencing the good life, and it begins with wisdom.

Theories might inspire you, but experiments will advance you.

Science can give mankind a better standard of living, better health and a better mental life, if mankind in turn gives science the sympathy and support so essential to its progress.

Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.

I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people.