Quotes About Science

Within the secular world picture, Neuromania and Darwinitis are the biggest piles of rubbish.

Ironically, it was the completion of the Human Genome Project a decade ago that showed how little the genetic code told us about living organisms (and even less about complex ones such as us).

The twentieth century demonstrated how quickly social policies based in pseudo-science, which bypassed the individual as an independent centre of action and judgement but simply saw humanity as a substrate to be shaped by appropriate technologies, led to catastrophe. Unfortunately, historical examples may not be successful in dissuading the bioengineers of the human soul because it will be argued that this time the intentions are better and consequently the results will be less disastrous.

It is intentionality that tears the seamless fabric of the causally closed material world.

The assumption that 'if science can't see it, then it is isn't real' has nothing to do with science and everything to do with 'scientism'—belief in the 'omnicompetence of science';[30] more precisely, in the omnicompetence of a sub-set of sciences—the natural, rather than the social, sciences

Trying to discover the contents of our ordinary Wednesdays in the tropisms of the evolved organism as reflected in brain activity is like applying one's ear to a seed and expecting to hear the rustling of the woods in a breeze.

Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what science is. Scientific methodology is the arrangement that allows reality to answer us back.

By the time I was 13, I was very interested in rocketry.

If God used evolution, God came from an ape.

I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist.'

We can end cancer as we know it.

Who doesn't love Captain Kirk?

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

The age of the universe is not just 'a guess', but rather it is a carefully measured number that is now known to a high degree of accuracy.

Of course, it's a dream to go to Mars. I want to find out whether there was life there or not. And if there was, then why did it die out? What sort of catastrophe happened?

There are many cells you could look at forever in 3D.

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

Telomeres are the ends of our chromosomes that control how long we live. As telomeres become shorter, then cells age and die more quickly. In simple terms, as your telomeres get shorter, your life gets shorter.

Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.

Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual level.

Biohacking could literally change the world as we know it.