Quotes About Science

Scientists have named this newly discovered species "Nebranderthal Man" (Homo nebranderthalensis.)

Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

To support this thesis, scientists tell us that we share 95 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, and yet we share 99.9 percent of our DNA with Pirates.6I ask you, who is the more likely common ancestor?

And evolution wasn't even properly invented until the late 1800s. Is that enough time to get a Labrador retriever from a dire wolf? I think not.

What you call extravagance is really comfort, pleasure and polish, which the lower orders learn from the aristocracy, and so grow civilised themselves. I have heard from very liberal people that there must be classes in society that cultivate science, art and refined manners — first, so that others may take living examples from them, and then to provide encouragement for noble actions.

You think of yourselves as human beings, but I think of you as 99 percent bacterial.

I pay my teachers very well, because pedagogy is the most important of all the sciences

No existe ciencia acabada, la ciencia vive superando errores y no estableciendo verdades.

general relativity and quantum mechanics cannot both be right,

difference in kind between empirical questions characteristic of science and philosophical questions about the fact of existence itself (a distinction lost on those who think that the universe as a whole, or matter-energy, or anything else that exists, might adequately explain its own being).135

Let's give them credit," Schmidt says. "The book guys got computer science, they figured out the analytics, and they built something significant.

Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe,

Occam's Razor. My father had often repeated that one to me. Occam's Razor states the following: "Other things being equal, a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one." Put more succinctly, the simplest answer was usually the best one. So

Do you know anything about Darwin?" he asked. I thought the question was rhetorical, but he waited for an answer. I said, "Survival of the strongest, all that." "Not the strongest," he said. "That's the modern interpretation, and it's wrong. The key for Darwin was not that the strongest survive—the most adaptable do. See the difference?" I nodded.

Occam's razor. It states - that the simplest explanation is usually the right one.

She explained to him her theory that people we now consider "on the spectrum" were, in the past, the geniuses in art, science, and literature, but now, with medications and diagnoses, we flatten them out, make them more uniform, dull their senses.

Es un error pensar que la ciencia ficción es un campo literario salvaje que se aparta de los caminos conocidos; puede ser un ingrediente más de cualquier tipo de ficción, del mismo modo que la ciencia y las tecnologías actuales forman parte integrante de nuestras vidas en todos sus aspectos.

Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.

Emerson, a shrewder prophet [than Freud], could have told Freud that psychoanalysis was another form of the triumph of literary culture over science, as well as over religion and philosophy.

Enslavement could not have existed and certainly could not have persisted without medical science. However, physicians were also dependent upon slavery, both for economic security and for the enslaved "clinical material" that fed the American medical research and medical training that bolstered physicians' professional advancement.

Like all of the other sciences, we have found out that the more we know, the more there is to know.

Kerk slammed his hand down hard on the table. The dishes bounced and the table legs creaked. Laboratory reactions! he growled.

Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them.