Quotes About Science

The fact that data is always evolving is a good thing. It means that science is continuing, and we are always learning.

Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive

It's perfectly logical,' said Dr Snyder. 'It's absolutely proved. You can't lie.' 'But I can,' said the Martian. 'Work on the logic of that a while, Mack.

Yes, there was the PFAM. The Psychological Front Against Martians.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

The voice of the Socratic dream vision is the only sign of any misgivings about the limits of logic: Perhaps – thus he might have asked himself – what is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent? Perhaps there is a realm of wisdom from which the logician is exiled? Perhaps art is even a necessary correlative of, and supplement for science?

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

It is still a metaphysical faith that underlies our faith in science—and we men seekers after knowledge today, we godless ones and anti-metaphysicians, we, too, derive our flame from the fire ignited by a faith millennia old, the Christian faith, which was also Plato's, that God is truth, that truth is divine.

Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not beforehand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

It is still a metaphysical faith upon which our faith in science rests—that even we knowers of today, we godless anti-metaphysicians, still take our fire, too, from the flame lit by the thousand-year-old faith, the Christian faith which was also Plato's faith, that God is truth; that truth is divine.

We possess scientific knowledge today to precisely the extent that we have decided to accept the evidence of the senses – to the extent that we have learned to sharpen and arm them and to think them through to their conclusions.

The rest is abortion and not-yet-science: which is to say metaphysics, theology, psychology, epistemology.

Our whole science is still, in spite of all its coldness, of all its freedom from passion, a dupe of the tricks of language, and has never succeeded in getting rid of that superstitious changeling "the subject" (the atom, to give another instance, is such a changeling, just as the Kantian "Thing-in-itself").

A culture based on the principle of science must perish once it begins to become illogical, i.e. to turn and flee its own consequences.

art it is easier to go over to a really emancipating philosophical science.

We see that science also rests on faith; there is simply no science without presuppositions

Science is of no value unless it is accompanied by social concern.

Evolution is no longer seen as a competitive struggle for existence, but rather as a cooperative dance in which creativity and the constant emergence of novelty are the driving forces. And with the new emphasis on complexity, networks, and patterns of organization, a new science of qualities is slowly emerging.

In Hinduism, the various forms of the divine are symbolized by numerous gods. Through their worship, the Hindu approaches the supreme Brahman, knowing, if he or she is intelligent and educated, that all these gods are ultimately identical. They are creations of the mind—images through which reality is approached. In science, their counterparts are the scientific models whose purpose is exactly the same: to convey something about reality which cannot be stated explicitly.

LATER THAN YOU THINK Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1950. Obviously the Archeologist's study belonged to an era vastly distant from today. Familiar similarities here and there only sharpened the feeling of alienage.

THE MAD ROBOT, by William P. McGivern Originally published in Amazing Stories, January 1944. CHAPTER I Rick Weston arrived at the Earth space-port outside Greater New York at six o'clock in the morning. He was driven directly to the mooring tower where his slim, fast pursuit single-seater was being readied for his trip to Jupiter

more than once he saw the four equations expressing Einstein's generalized theory of gravitation: He never connected them with the little girl's chant: "Gik-lo, I-o, Rik-o, Gis-so.