Quotes About Science

the principle known as "uniformitarianism." This is the assumption that existing processes, acting as at present, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.

as so often in science, statements touted as facts turn out to be opinions contradicted by other opinions that are also touted as facts.

On 16 January 2002 India's Minister of Science and Technology released the first results of carbon-dating of the artefacts from the flooded cities of the Gulf of Cambay. The results date the artifacts to 9500 years ago -- 5000 years older than any city so far recognized by archaeologists.

A key example is a human cell, which is the simplest thing in biology. When it comes to how it divides, biologists will talk about spindles forming and dividing chromosomes, but they are merely describing what the cell is doing.

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Louis Slotin, at Los Alamos in 1946.

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Their math lacks integers!" "As far as we can tell," Jennifer added. "They don't use whole numbers at all. Only 'smears,' they call them.

If the universe agrees that past events are not contradicted by a theory, the theory becomes a template. The universe goes along with it. The better the theory fits the facts, the longer it lasts—if it lasts at all.

Baryons don't expand when the universe expands.

Fine," he said. "Murph, you wanna talk science, don't just tell me you're scared of some ghost. Record the facts, analyze—present your conclusions.

Earth's atmosphere is 80 percent nitrogen," he pointed out. "We don't even breathe nitrogen.

Doppler effect.

One of those useless machines they used to make," he finally began, "was called an MRI.

Murph, you wanna talk science, don't just tell me you're scared of some ghost. Record the facts, analyze—present your conclusions.

Genesis 1 and the scientific evidence. The literary framework interpretation can easily be reconciled with any contemporary scientific theory of origin one chooses to embrace. Yet at the same time, reconciliation is not necessary. Genesis 1 has no bearing on science, for it is strictly interested in theology, not science. Responding

Right. Isn't that how science works?" Redwing grinned. "If you don't understand, do an experiment.

Scientists require apparatus, but mathists splendidly require only writing tools and erasers. Better, philosophers do not even need erasers

the Ocean of Night (1977) Across the Sea of Suns (1984) Great Sky River (1987) Tides of Light (1989) Furious Gulf (1994) Sailing Bright Eternity (1995)

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Fermi turned to Bohr with weary eyes and a slanted smile, and shrugged. "So we thought we had discovered new elements. We even named them—hesperium, ausonium. Wrong! Mythical! They were ordinary old barium and iodine. We were careful—too careful.

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We're more interested in the editor of this Astounding Science Fiction. General Groves sent me to ask that someone who knows more about this work you're doing interview this"—he glanced at a card—"John W. Campbell.

Karl wondered how many scientists read this science fiction stuff. Maybe they couldn't get good books out in New Mexico?