Quotes About Science

How wonderful science is nowadays," said Miss Marple. "Doctors can do so much, can't they?" "We all have one great competitor," said Dr. Graham. "Nature, you know. And some of the good old-fashioned home remedies come back from time to time.

It's quite possible that the delusions of today may be the proved scientific facts of tomorrow.

Nothing, I believe is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a a stagnant pool.

Scientific facts are few and far between, popular facts are commonplace and not usually facts at all.

ma chère penchons sur les filons géologiques (my dear let us lean on geographical veins)

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

Looking back back at the one and only time I've gone swimming with a whale shark, I realize I was simply unprepared to submit myself so completely to nature. Or rather, humans' interpretation and preservation of nature, by adding 1.8 million pounds of sea salt to a giant tank of water so all these creatures could live and swim together. For science. For entertainment. For spectacle. Perhaps for a little of all three.

Science and Spirituality have no synergy. But the one thing they agree on is, that we are Energy !

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.

We need to be pro-science we have to go back to science.

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.

The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition.

Faith and science thus find themselves reconciled, not in the way of the scholastic, who claims to prove the reality of his dogmatic propositions by means of universal reason, but by the assertion of the overall oneness of the real that has no double or reflection.

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

This seems scientific and disarmingly undogmatic, but it ignores the fact that it is impossible to prove something doesn't exist.

Scientific journals must remain the preserve of articles capable of affecting the consensus of the scientific public. Books are the place for opinions, speculations, and fanciful accounts of ricocheting planets.

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

when proving what caused an accident, disciplines such as metallurgy are much less difficult to employ than psychology. So perhaps they should better be called "easy science" and psychology called "hard science.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

In natural science, Nature has given us a world and we're just to discover its laws. In computers, we can stuff laws into it and create a world.

4 million volts course like lovers through her body. Eerie rays eliminate from bulbous cathodes to caress her skin penetrating deep. Also somewhat like lovers, actually. Chemicals so secret they don't even have names and bubbles and spurts in her vein.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

With all the apps available on our cell phones, it seems to me we're getting closer and closer to Gene Roddenberry's vision of Starfleet tricorders.