Quotes About Science

The processes revealed by the sciences, especially evolutionary biology, are in themselves God-acting-as-creator. There is no need to look for God as some kind of additional factor supplementing the processes of the world. God, to use language usually applied in sacramental theology, is "in, with, and under" all-that-is and all-that-goes-on

You must set yourself free From the striving of Man And the applause of the World You must fly as you can... - No hope forever No orietur. Science and patience, The torment is sure. The fire within you, Soft silken embers, Is our whole duty But no one remembers. It is recovered. What? Eternity. In the whirling light Of the sun in the sea.

The cleavage between the scientific and the extra-scientific domain of experience is, I believe, not a cleavage between the concrete and the transcendental but between the metrical and the non-metrical.

Better admit that there was some truth both in science and religion; and if they must fight, let it be elsewhere than in the brain of a hard-working scientist.

To the question whether I would admit that the cause of the decision of the atom has something in common with the cause of the decision of the brain, I would simply answer that there is no cause. In the case of the brain I have a deeper insight into the decision; this insight exhibits it as volition, i.e. something outside causality.

The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.

The atom is as porous as the solar system. If we eliminated all the unfilled space in a man's body and collected his protons and electrons into one mass, the man would be reduced to a speck just visible with a magnifying glass.

Physics most strongly insists that its methods do not penetrate behind the symbolism.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

When we analyse the picture into a large number of particles of paint, we lose the aesthetic significance of the picture. The particles of paint go into the scientific inventory, and it is claimed that everything that there really was in the picture is kept. But this way of keeping a thing may be much the same as losing it. The essence of a picture (as distinct from the paint) is arrangement.

You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed in the forefront.

Out of the numbers proceeds that harmony of natural law which it is the aim of science to disclose. We can grasp the tune but not the player. Trinculo might have been referring to modern physics in the words: 'This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture of Nobody.

The simpler elements of the scientific world have no immediate counterparts in everyday experience; we use them to build things which have counterparts.

No me digan que no es vergonzoso para la especie humana haber medido la distancia de la Tierra al Sol, haber pesado todos los planetas cercanos, y no haber descubierto las leyes fecundas que hacen la felicidad de los pueblos.

Si nuestra ignorancia de la naturaleza creó a los dioses, el conocimiento de la naturaleza está hecho para destruirlos.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at his birth, he might have found room in a quart mug. He died on March the 20th, 1727, after more than eighty-four years of more than average bodily health and vigour; it is a proper pendant to the story of the quart mug to state that he never lost more than one of his second teeth.

Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.