Quotes About Science

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

I love being a carbon molecule.

It is intrinsically impossible for the pope, as pope, to speak with authority on the details of climate science. Nor is he better suited than you or I to evaluate the so-called "consensus" of actual scientists. He might as well be picking stocks or rewriting the scores of Broadway musicals, for which he has equal divine authority: none. He

Quantum mechanics is normal. It is the world it describes that is weird.

So, could the solution to the mystery of how birds find their way around the globe lead to a revolution in biology? The

Perhaps the oddest fact we know about the universe is that we know a great deal about it,

there is in fact no evidence that quantum mechanics is actually needed at all to account for consciousness—unlike other biological phenomena that we have considered in this book such as enzyme action or photosynthesis.

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.

The human genome is a life written in a book where every word has been written before. A story endlessly rehearsed.

By now you should know not to eat the GMO -Johnny The Walker

Microwave Oven - When you zap, your food turns to crap. -Johnny The Walker

Spaces are scientific, open, and detached; places are intimate, peopled, and emotive.

He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to literature.

If we care about knowledge, freedom and peace, then we need to stake a strong claim: anyone can believe anything, but liberal science—open-ended, depersonalized checking by an error-seeking social network—is the only legitimate validator of knowledge, at least in the reality-based community.

This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.

For science the great miracle to be explained is the physical universe. For esoteric philosophy the greater miracle is human consciousness.

Natural science in England, as Darwin already knew to his cost, was still the purview of Christian scholars. But here was a question that Darwin found compelling: if God had created all the creatures of the world, what possible reason could there be for the variations found in the Galápagos?

Louis Pasteur once noted, "The microbes always have the last word.

Ockham's razor is only a methodological principle, not a necessary truth

Always give more weight to peer-reviewed research than to results announced solely in the media.

Stalin's teachings about gradual, concealed, unnoticeable quantitative changes leading to rapid, radical, qualitative changes permitted Soviet biologists to discover in plants the realization of such qualitative transitions that one species could be transformed into another'… The slide away from truth-directed science had disastrous results in agriculture. It was also humanly disastrous. Biologists who disagreed were shot or imprisoned.

I'll show that religion is (probably) an evolutionary adaptation for binding groups together and helping them to create communities with a shared morality. It is not a virus or a parasite, as some scientists (the "New Atheists") have argued in recent years.