Quotes About Science

Our language and our minds are too limited to deal with anything but a fixed reality, regardless of whether such a thing exists. The best we can do is to update our delusions to fit the times. We live in an increasingly rational, science-based society. The religious metaphors of the past are no longer comforting. Science is whittling at them from every side. Humanity needs a metaphor that allows God and science to coexist, at least in our minds, for the next thousand years.

La experiencia personal. (La percepción humana no es digna de confianza.) 2. La experiencia de sus conocidos. (Menos fiable, si cabe.) 3. Los expertos. (Trabajan por dinero, no para descubrir la verdad.) 4. Los estudios científicos. (Correlación ? causación.) 5.

At the time of this writing I am trying to influence another national topic: climate science. My framing involves separating the science from the prediction models, and the prediction models from the economic models, and evaluating each of them separately. After all, economics is not science. Economics is more like astrology, at least when you're predicting ten years out.

nutrition science wasn't science at all. It was some unholy marriage of industry influence, junk science, and government.

I don't trust the science behind the vegetarian movement because the believers have agendas beyond nutrition. Some vegetarians are in the lifestyle to protect animals, some want to address climate change, and all are partially blinded by the cognitive dissonance that comes automatically with any lifestyle choice. Complicating

Assuming scientists are human, you would expect lots of peer-reviewed studies to be flawed.

Spiritual exegesis is not an unrestrained flight of the imagination. Rather, it is a sacred science that proceeds according to certain principles and stands accountable to sacred tradition, the Magisterium, and the wider community of biblical interpreters (both living and deceased).

once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science. That's where we'll learn what's really unknown about being here on Earth.

Marta Stern to her father Sandy:] "Science is where the truth is in our world," she said that night in the office. "What once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science. That's where we'll learn what's really unknown about being here on Earth.

Science is where the truth is in our world,' she said that night in the office. 'What once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science.

peeps cant turn into anything smaller than what they are. where would the extra mass go

Abandoning the flatland ages past, And finding mountains much more to their taste, They toil in labyrinthine caverns, dense With gases that are metal's noble source; 10770 They separate, combine, test, trying to Discover things undreamt of hitherto. By spirit power, subtly, they construct Forms clear and crystalline, without defect; Then in the crystal's eternal silence peering, Perceive what in the upper world is occurring.

Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, hat auch Religion; wer jene beiden nicht besitzt, der habe Religion.

Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

In science it is a service of the highest merit to seek out those fragmentary truths attained by the ancients, and to develop them further.

The most important thing to remember is that all fact is already theory.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

Advertencia para idiotas. Pero a todo aquel que sea demasiado estúpido para comprender la ciencia astronómica, o demasiado pusilánime para creer a Copérnico sin que afecte a su fe, le aconsejaría que, una vez renunciado a los estudios astronómicos, y tras haber condenado todos aquellos estudios filosóficos que le plazca, se preocupe de sus asuntos y se vaya a su casa a escarbar su terruño

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

One reason that so many people today say, "I believe in spirituality, but not in religion," is that the products of the human spirit, the various religious traditions, can so easily become warring sects if not brought within a wider, more reasoned perspective. Unitarian Universalism offers the opportunity not only to deepen one's personal spirituality through dialogue, but to do so in a context where "the guidance of reason and the results of science" are honored.

We believe our history books. In fact, many millions of people still cling to the thoroughly discredited religious belief that mankind is only four thousand years old. Science labors to ignore the mounting evidence that we may not be the only intelligent life form on this planet.

scores of scientists working in widely separated unrelated disciplines are crossing the threshold into the world of ancient science. We call it progress, but Merlin will have the last laugh. Science is inching into magic, and the science of the twenty-first century will probably be nothing more than a revival of alchemy. In

book, In the Name of Science, Martin Gardner defines the characteristics of the common crank or pseudoscientist.