Quotes About Science

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.

We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.

Creationists are possibly gaining more political power. In the U.S., you are constantly hearing stories of school boards harassing teachers and trying to get textbooks banned.

Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Significant sections of the electorate probably understand that climate change negotiations may have the effect of changing their country's standing in the world's hierarchies of power as well as wealth: this may indeed form the basis of their resistance to climate science in general. The refusal to

The difference, Gopal told the Rationalists, between the Science Association and their own society was that they did not consider science alone, something people pursued in the seclusion of laboratories, important in itself. He himself was studying not science but English literature. Their aim was the application of rational principles to everything around them—to their own lives, to society, to religion, to history. It didn't matter what.

For him it meant that everything which existed was interconnected: the trees, the sky, the weather, people, poetry, science, nature. He hunted down facts in the way a magpie collects shiny things. Yet when he strung them all together, somehow they did become stories — of a kind.

As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.

I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.

How to live as divided cells — voilà! Something always eludes the scientists, the poets, the stargazers, the biologists, the anthropologists. Something eludes the informers, detectives, police, lawyers. It is the dream. And what lies in the deformed mirrors of the dream and haunts our sleep is the secret of everything.

I am most deeply concerned over a trend toward conformity, a growth of anti-intellectualism, which manifests itself in a sneering attitude toward education, science, and the arts. The tendency is to stifle mental freedom, which is the very basis of a democracy's life and growth.

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these new means always end up complicating things instead of making them easier? It was the same with medicine. Doctors had lost their "clinical eye" and relied only on test results. Meanwhile the police were losing their intuition and passively accepting scientific findings.

Only theory can turn a heap of facts into a tower of knowledge

This is one of nature's lessons for innovable technologies: If we want to open nature's black box of innovation, Ockham's razor is much too dull. Like oil and water, simplicity and innovability don't mix.

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

Christianity does not displace scientific accounts of the world; rather, it lends them ontological depth and clarity, and in doing so, discloses a greater vision of reality – a vision that gives both intellectual resilience and existential motivation to the task of apologetics.