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Quotes About Science

All life depends on organic reactions. A favorite saying.
~ Paul Doughty Bartlett
Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.
~ Paul Feyerabend
It's overwhelmingly likely that life exists on other planets.
~ Paul Horowitz
Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.
~ Paul Nurse
Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.
~ Peter Agre
In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic.
~ Peter Farb
The most recent studies both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic — something determined at conception.
~ Peter McWilliams
In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life
~ Philip Johnson
Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?
~ Richard P. Feynman
Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.
~ Richard Summerbell
I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.
~ Robert Winston
NASA scientists have discovered a new form of life, unfortunately, it won't date them either.
~ Stephen Colbert
If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist.
~ Stephen Hawking
The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical account becomes
~ Thomas Nagel
Every day, I read about new ideas and research that could help someone I care about live a longer and healthier life.
~ Tom Rath
It's not going to surprise me if our kids end up running on the beach in Florida when they're 100 years old on regrown body parts with a much higher quality of life than we can begin to imagine.
~ Juan Enriquez
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
~ Julian Baggini
My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.
~ Kedar Joshi
This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being.
~ Keith L. Moore
For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.
~ Ken MacLeod
If life can emerge just from naturalistic circumstances, then God is out of a job.
~ Lee Strobel