Quotes About Science

There is no conclusive scientific evidence that man is "up from the ape." While the animals were created "after their kind," we are told that "God created man in His own image" [Genesis 1:27 NKJV].

Science is learning to control everything but man.

Energy out of control is dangerous; energy under control is powerful . . .Science takes a Niagara River with its violent turbulence and transforms it into electrical energy to illuminate a million homes and to turn the productive wheels of industry. [God] does in the spiritual realm what science does in the physical realm.

This has been an age in which we have humanized God and deified man, and we have worshipped at the throne of science

When you are told that science has disproved the Bible, ask specifically where such is the case. True science and a true understanding of the Bible are never at variance.

Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it . . . Why is it so easy to accept manmade miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?

A virus doesn't understand politics.

Man is naturally a reasoning animal, and is only then truly a man when his passions are tempered and his conduct regulated by reason. The function of reason is the recognition and the realization of truth; truth recognised in speculation is science; truth realized in action is a moral life and a well-ordered society.

I'll sing you a ditty that needs no apology-- Attend, and keep watch in the gates of your ears!-- Of the famous new science which men call Geology, And gods call the story of millions of years.

We miscalculate very much indeed if we imagine that the peculiar doctrines and favourite fancies of a few cultivators of physical science in this small corner of the world, and in this small half of a century, are likely to exercise any notable influence over the thoughts of men, after the one-sided impulse out of which they arose shall have spent its force.

Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes have no soul, they are filled with distress...

Do not forget that when the heart petrifies there is no progress. All science must be like a fruit, so ordered that it may hang from a tree of the flesh & ripen in the sunlight of passion. Histology, photography, electric bells, telescopes, birds, amperes, smoothing irons, etc. -this is only good for bouncing off the arse of humanity.

Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

The Foundation of Empire is Art & Science Remove them or Degrade them & the Empire is No More.

Whatever ignorance, pride or fanaticism may suggest to the contrary, Esoteric Cosmology can be shown inseparably connected with both philosophy and modern science. The gods of the ancients, the monads--from Pythagoras down to Leibnitz--and the atoms of the present materialistic school (as borrowed by them from the theories of the old Greek Atomists) are only a compound unit, or a graduated unity like the human frame, which begins with body and ends with spirit.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

While micro-evolution--change within species--has been observed in the laboratory, macro-evolution--change from one species to another has not, and never will be.

That we have iodine in our thyroid glands proves that our bodies were fashioned from supernova material.

Atoms have substantial, chewy centers made of protons and neutrons stuck together by the most powerful force in the universe, which, in the great poetic tradition of physics, is officially called the strong force. from The Sun's Heartbeat

How many of your friends know that there's a "sun inside the Sun"? Or that a bizarre, newly found zone beneath the solar surface, the tachocline, is solely responsible for its violence? Or that we just experienced the oddest solar cycle in more than two hundred years—which has apparently influenced global warming in a major way?

We, of course, have the advantage of hindsight. Who can say which of today's widely repeated seeming truisms about the big bang, string theory, or the universe's origins will seem ludicrous a century hence?

You've been doing this all your life? Do you still enjoy it?" I asked. The room was very warm, and he wiped his balding red-headed brow. Hi seyes lit up as he said, "This is a dream job. i get to see what the Sun's doing every day!