Quotes About Science

Me propongo contar, pues, la trama del siglo. De mi siglo. Mi versión sobre cómo el azar ha gobernado al mundo y sobre cómo los hombres de ciencia tratamos en vano de domesticar su furia.

Si los hombres le dedicasen a la física o a las matemáticas una cuarta parte de las horas que tardan en resolver sus líos amorosos, la ciencia avanzaría en proporciones geométricas.

La polémica es, después de todo, la forma única de la labor intelectual: la república de gérmenes racionales que constituye nuestra alma no es más que un fermento peculiar de lo que ya hay en otras almas. El contenido de nuestro cerebro se organiza en la lucha con los idearios ajenos. La historia de las ciencias es íntegramente la relación de las polémicas entre grandes pensadores.

En qué código, en qué escritura, en qué ciencia había aprendido yo que los prejuicios priman sobre las realidades? ¿Por qué era mejor que otros, sino por mis obras? El hombre de talento debe ser como la muerte, que no reconoce categorías. […] Usted sólo tiene un problema sumo, a cuya lado huelgan todos los otros: adquirir dinero para sustentar la modestia decorosamente. El resto viene por añadidura.

Patrimonio común de la sociedad, las ciencias no deben constituir un privilegio de castas herméticas ni es lícito que algunos hombres monopolicen, sus resultados en perjuicio de los demás. El único límite de su difusión debe ser la capacidad para comprenderlas; el destino único de sus aplicaciones, aumentar la común felicidad de los hombres y permitirles una vida más digna.

Misión de la Universidad. Dije en ella que la universidad debe, ante todo, hacer del hombre medio un hombre culto. Por hombre culto entendía que tuviese unas ideas claras y básicas de la Física, Biología, Historia, Sociología y Filosofía.

Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now" without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank.

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being longer occupied in the elaboration of pure mathematics, could turn his thoughts exclusively to the study of natural laws.

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

operate within a new form of science that asks not just what is possible, but what is appropriate—appropriate to the well-being of self and Earth. Such a question does not originate in the mental realm but the spiritual, and is felt bodily, once our senses and heart are attuned. So the central part of our being that simply must be allowed to function and be attended is the heart.

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

But one group did. By 3.5 billion years ago, bacteria had emerged, and continue to this day as the most populous kind of organism on Earth.

No comparable mortality had been experienced since the bubonic plague nearly five hundred years before, and modern medical science stood impotent before the pestilence.

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

You are your synapses

Once a genetic component has been established, the search for the genes involved can begin. This is a time-consuming and complex process that has recently been greatly facilitated by the information obtained by the Human Genome Project.51

Regardless of the reason why the nap works, it appears to be of practical value. Obviously, people in controlled environments

After the death of Archimedes in 212 BCE, the topic of motion was effectively abandoned; it did not resurface for another 1,400 years, when Gerard of Brussels revived the mathematical works of Euclid and Archimedes and came very close to defining speed as a ratio of distance to time.

It is through Galileo that the connection between math and the physical world became solidified.

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.