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Quotes About Science

Knock, knock… Who's there?… Little endorphin… Little endorphin who?… Little endorphin Annie." And then the endorphins laugh, and then you laugh. See? It's science.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever." Deuteronomy 29:29. Just how God accomplished the work of creation he has never revealed to men; human science cannot search out the secrets of the Most High. His creative power is as incomprehensible as his existence.
~ Ellen G. White
Divine science is the demonstration of the Spirit of God, inspiring implicit faith in Him.
~ Ellen Gould White
We simply don't know, which is why scientific research is an almost constant search for better truths and not "the truth.
~ Ellen J. Langer
Atul Gawande writes in his book Complications, it is instead "an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, [and] fallible individuals." Every individual is different, every pathogen is different, and therefore it should necessarily follow that every treatment strategy should be different. Yet, in modern medicine, this is rarely the case; Western medicine is embedded within institutionalized and standardized health care.
~ Ellen J. Langer
The Medusa and the Snail,
~ Ellen J. Langer
All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her cigarette. 'Maybe better.' 'Why's that?' 'Art doesn't kill anyone.
~ Ellen Klages
In the hallowed tradition of squishy doughball liberals, I believe that science, reason, kindness, and understanding—maybe a little food—can set the world right. B
~ Ellen Meloy
Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.
~ Ellen Ochoa
We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.
~ Ellen Ochoa
I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.
~ Ellen Ochoa
One square yard of the zero-point field contains enough energy to boil all the water in the world.
~ Ellyn Davis
[Physics is] a good framework for thinking. … Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
~ Elon Musk
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up -- and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.
~ Elvin Stackman
The best quantitative finance brings real insight into the relation between value and uncertainty, and it approaches the quality of real science; the worst is a pseudoscientific hodgepodge of complex mathematics used with obscure justification.
~ Emanuel Derman
If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
~ Emil Cioran
La scienza è l'elusione della saggezza in nome della conoscenza del mondo.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Knowledge – if it is profound – never changes: only its décor varies. Love continues without Venus, was without Mars, and if the gods no longer intervene in events, those events are neither more explicable nor less disconcerting: the paraphernalia of formulas merely replaces the pomp of the old legends, without the constants of human life being thereby modified, science apprehending them no more intimately than poetic narratives.
~ Emil M. Cioran
So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small.
~ Emil Wiechert
A ciência pode perfeitamente nos dizer de que maneira as causas produzem seus efeitos, não que finalidades devem ser buscadas; ela observa, explica, mas não julga: o bem e o mal não existem para ela.
~ Émile Durkheim
The progress of a science is proven by the progress toward solution of the problems it treats.
~ Émile Durkheim
Methodological rules are for science what rules of law and custom are for conduct.
~ Émile Durkheim
Io ora mi domando se aumentando la tensione elettrica, l'umanità intera, in un tempo più o meno lontano, non finirà per impazzire. Ecco un grande problema che dovrebbe preoccupare le menti dei nostri scienziati.
~ Emilio Salgari
apron, a cheap appropriation of the Cath Kidston effect. I feel like an interloper in someone else's life. I am a creature from science fiction, wearing an earth body to disguise my true self.
~ Emily Barr