Quotes About Science

is impossible to specify what [consciousness] is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been written on it.

I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist.

Despite rejection by the establishment, Bowlby pioneered on, giving form to a theory of what he called attachment. (The story goes that when asked by his wife why he didn't give it its rightful name, a theory of love, he replied, "What? I'd be laughed out of science.")

In 2016, 83 percent of the winners in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair were children of immigrants.

What we were concerned about—what seems to be happening now—is volcanoes

Love was some kind of of chemical error.

I think something quite dreadful has been happening to criticism in the arts, particularly in America, during the last twenty years. In an age which is so much dominated by technological advance, the methods and even the jargon of science and engineering have mistakenly been adopted not only by fringe disciplines like psychology and social studies but by many arts scholars who should have known better. from In Defense of the Artist in Signposts to Criticism of Children's Literature (1983)

Reason drives your search to make sense of the world by pushing you to ask why things are as they are. For theoretical reason, the outcome of that search becomes science; for practical reason, the outcome is a more just world.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things. I am really more of a magician than anything else.' Laurence Arne-Sayles, interview in The Secret Garden, May 1976

but as a scientist and an explorer I have a duty to bear witness to the Splendours of the World.

Abandoning the search for the Knowledge would free us to pursue a new sort of science. We could follow any path that the data suggested to us.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

I've never been able to ascertain exactly what Angus is studying at UCLA. Library Science or Demonology 101?

the laboratories established by German pharmaceutical and dye manufacturers in the 1880s and 1890s as the first truly institutionalized research laboratories, and to General Electric's 1900 laboratory as the pioneer in America.17

Miracle is another word for magic, and magic is only science, unexplained.

William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet.

William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.

The history of every people is also a history of its craziness, and the more science becomes a religion, the more religion must pretend to be a science, desperate for all logical explanations.

I listened to Karen Woo give an explaination of photosynthesis once," he said. "God only knows why they were discussing photosynthesis.They hung on her every word, like she was a PBS special. Her explaination didn't even involve sunlight. These people will believe anything. They will say anything.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.