Quotes About Science

Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric.

It's always been pride. The History of the Mayfair Witches was pride. But this came to me wrapped in the mysteries of science. We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless. And I knew this, I knew but I forgot. That was my mistake.

There are gaps in my education which no one could ever fill. But, they don't matter to me. I do not need to know science or algebra or geometry. Literature and music, painting and history-these are my passions. These are things that still, somehow in hours of quiet and lonesomeness, keep me alive.

No knowledge can defeat him, tempered by fire and time, he is too strong for the horrors of technology or the spells of science.

Of course, it didn't surprise me to hear that educated people didn't believe in God, that they were infinitely more interested in science, that the aristocracy was much in ill favor, and so was the Church.

We must have the courage to embrace the beauty of science in the name of the Lord.

la scienza discende dalla poesia, perché la metafora è alla base di ogni descrizione scientifica. Solo

Bean decided to pay attention to what Ms. Aruba-Tate was saying. Today, class, we are having a special science lesson. Science! Bean stopped thinking about Colorado. Science was usually dirt or fish, and Bean liked both of them.

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein starts shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water.

If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't?

What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.

I've always thought that science and fiction writing have a lot in common because they're both about modeling reality.

Don't. Shoot. The air is full of hydrogen!

the blade and began, very carefully, to make a shallow incision in the neck of a frog he had pinned, through its splayed feet, to the untreated wood.

Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?

Lab assistants do what they're told. Scientists figure out what to do next.

Entropy is the information contained in a physical system that is invisible to us.

Scientist thinks there is a biology beyond earth not because we found it, it's simply because if not then earth is some sort of miracle.

As Dennis Lindley had argued, if someone attaches a prior probability of zero the hypothesis that the moon is made of green cheese, then the whole armies of astronauts coming back bearing green cheese cannot convince him.

Sharon Moalem

Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier.

All bodies are part of matter, created at the big bang, 10 billion years before the earth appeared. Yes, your overall body is composed of about 7 octillion venerable atoms (that's a 7 with twenty-seven zeros after it), mostly produced by exploding stars. You are literally stardust; so is everything around you.

Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts.

Once scientists were universally revered as exemplars of independent truth seeking, of knowledge for its own sake, but in recent years they have been accused of fraud, misrepresenting their findings, and other forms of cheating reflective of a highly competitive, market-oriented culture.