Quotes About Science

Each of us is a complicated assymetrical outcome of the laws of electromagnetism and gravity.

If we were to smooth out all the material in the Universe into a uniform sea of atoms we would see just how little of anything there is. There would be little more than about 1 atom in every cubic metre of space. No laboratory on Earth could produce an artificial vacuum that was anywhere near as empty as that. The best vacuum achievable today contains approximately 1000 billion atoms in a cubic metre.

Science is predicated upon the belief that the Universe is algorithmically compressible and the modern search for a Theory of Everything is the ultimate expression of that belief, a belief that there is an abbreviated representation of the logic behind the Universe's properties that can be written down in finite form by human beings.

Most scientists and mathematicians operate as if Platonism is true regardless of whether they believe that it is. That is, they work as though there were an unknown realm of truth to be discovered.

Everything that is made of atoms has a density quite close to the density of a single atom given by the mass of an atom divided by its volume.

Others might point to the warning that the most dangerous thing in science is the idea that arrives before its time.

Moreover it is assumed that wormholes only join universes to baby universes, or universes to themselves; there are no wormholes joining different baby universes in this approximation, nor are there allowed to be wormholes which split up into two or more other wormholes.

Secular intellectuals, poor things, cannot win for losing. Even as contemporary philosophers move more and more beyond the modernist, critical, and reductionist habits of thought that grew up in the old Enlightenment, which was keyed to the old new science, the new technologies have simply created the opportunity for a new religious imagination.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

The arts and humanities are not mere entertainment, to be turned to for relaxation after a busy day spent solving differential equations; they are our templates for living, for governing ourselves and our societies. Nor can science offer any help with the knottier problems besetting the human race. It can remedy bad smells, bad pains, and bad roads, but not bad behavior, bad government, or bad ideas.

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

wonder is the mother of all science.

Leonardo virtually announced the birth of the method of modern science when he said that true knowledge begins with opinion.

The scientific method is the only authentic means at our command for getting at the significance of our everyday experiences of the world in which we live...scientific method provides a working pattern of the way in which and conditions under which experiences are used to lead ever onward and outward.

Experience presents itself as the method, and the only method, for getting at nature, penetrating its secrets, and wherein nature empirically discloses (by the use of empirical method in natural science) deepens, enriches and directs the further development of experience.

Professed scientific philosophers have been wont to employ the remoter and refinished products of science in ways which deny, discount or pervert the obvious and immediate facts of gross experience, unmindful that thereby philosophy itself commits suicide.

Although recognition of the fact still halts, because of traditions established before the power of art was adequately recognized, science itself is but a central art auxiliary to the generation and utilization of other arts.*

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.

There is a risk to avoid in popular science. This is the atmosphere of unquestioned authority; the scientist explains, the reader learns. Science, though, is always provisional, not a final truth, and the adventure lies in the process, the struggle for understanding. When science is explained, the things that are explained are ideas and the observations on which those ideas are based. Ideas develop; ideas should always be questioned. In science as in life, the one sure thing is change.

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.