Quotes About Science

Christopher Savage have calculated that in reasonable models, we expect about ten dark-matter particles to interact with the atoms in a typical human body every year. The effects of every individual interaction are pretty negligible, so don't worry about getting a dark matter stomachache.

On the other hand, in the memorable words of Richard Feynman, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

wormholes don't grow on trees.

finding evidence for the divine in the gaps in our physical understanding. Likewise,

There may be no ultimate answer to the "Why?" question. The universe simply is, in this particular way, and that's a brute fact.

We can think of the difference between math and science in terms of possible worlds. Math is concerned with truths that would hold in any possible world: given these axioms, these theorems will follow. Science is all about discovering the actual world in which we live.

Neutrino masses aren't completely understood as yet, so let's pretend that they don't interact with the Higgs, although the jury is still out.)

of this changed thanks to a clever chap named Isaac Newton.

The right answer, whatever it may turn out to be, will more likely be phrased in terms of wave functions, Schrödinger's equation, and Hilbert spaces.

C. P. Snow—British intellectual, physicist, and novelist—is perhaps best known for his insistence that the "Two Cultures" of the sciences and the humanities had grown apart and should both be a part of our common civilization.

There is a simple rule that resolves all possible time travel paradoxes.83 Here it is: • Paradoxes do not happen.

They then build detectors that patiently wait for the faint signal of a dark-matter particle passing through and perturbing a nucleus.

la ciencia es un viaje en el que buena parte de la diversión está, sin duda alguna, en el trayecto.

I'm humble enough to acknowledge that I don't know the secrets of the universe. I'm no longer chasing faith. I'm chasing truth—and that means accepting uncertainty, accepting that the universe is bigger and stranger than we can even know. Is it possible that the universe acts with intention, with intelligence? Science is learning that it's not only possible, it's likely.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It was the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws of prediction.

Look, there's no debate among microbiologists—a pandemic is coming. Sooner or later one of these bugs is going to be stronger and faster than we are, and the way we continue to misuse antibiotics, it'll be sooner.

And truthfully, when microbiologists talk amongst ourselves, off the record after a few glasses of wine, the optimists admit their optimism is more wishful thinking than science." "What do the pessimists do?" "The pessimists just keep drinking until they pass out.

Economics is the science that studies how people and societies make decisions that allow them to get the most out of their limited resources.

Your mind has an incredible ability to cross-pollinate—that is, to connect disparate things to solve problems in unique ways or envision new creations. Einstein attributed many of his physics breakthroughs to his violin breaks, which he believed helped him connect ideas in very different ways.

Nikola Tesla Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

Tesla's continued research in the field of ultra-high-frequency energy led him to conclude that it was only a matter of time until science would discover a veritable source of inexhaustible, free

Tesla was never one to chase recognition—he was after the pure thrill of discovery and creation.

When the great truth accidentally revealed and experimentally confirmed is fully recognized, that this planet, with all its appalling immensity, is to electric currents virtually no more than a small metal ball and that by this fact many possibilities, each baffling imagination and of incalculable consequence, are rendered absolutely sure of accomplishment,

Schweizer Wissenschaftler hatten herausgefunden, dass sich auf der Welt immer mindestens zehntausend Maschinen gleichzeitig in der Luft befanden. Mit über einer Million Passagieren an Bord.