Quotes About Science

No matter what means we use, service is always a work of the heart. There are times when the power of science is so seductive that we may come to feel that all that is required to serve others is to get our science right, our diagnosis, our treatment. But science can never serve unless it is first translated by people into a work of the heart.

Medicine is as close to love as it is to science, and its relationships matter even at the edge of life itself.

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

A great problem of contemporary life is how to control the power of economic interests which ignore the harmful effects of their applied science and technology.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

The Chandler Act (aka the Emerging Technological Threats Act of 2032) is the opening salvo in a new War on Science. To understand the future course of this war, one need only look at the history of the War on Drugs and the War on Terror. Like those two manufactured "wars", this one will be never-ending, freedom-destroying, counterproductive, and ultimately understood to have caused far more damage than the supposed threat it was aimed at ever could have.

Holy Science: 'A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson which humility can teach.' - Samuel Johnson

Why has the medical profession not taken advantage of the help available from evolutionary biology, a well-developed branch of science with great potential for providing medical insights? One reason is surely the pervasive neglect of this branch of science at all educational levels. Religious and other sorts of opposition have minimized the impact in general education of Darwin's contributions to our understanding of ourselves and the world we live in.

Astronomy is not the science of all objects with mass and weight and velocity. The objects it describes do not include '56 Chevies. Biology is not the science of all objects that consume and excrete and have inherited characteristics. The objects it describes do not include '56 Chevies. Linguistics is not the study of all possible symbols or symbol systems. The objects it describes do not include '56 Chevies.

Nor does linguistics need the nominal blessing of science. It is some sort of systematic, truth-seeking, knowledge-making enterprise, and as long as it brings home the epistemic bacon by turning up results about language, the label isn't terribly important. Etymology is helpful in this regard: science is a descendant of a Latin word for knowledge, and it is only the knowledge that matters.

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

If you don't abide by scientific principles, chaos will ensue.

mosquitoes have primitive eyes that don't recognize the color yellow.

As soon as we pass through the birth canal we begin to become 90 percent microbe.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'