Quotes About Science

An easy way to estimate your resting metabolic rate is to multiply your desired weight in pounds by 8 and add 200, but this is very variable, so if anyone ever offers to measure your real metabolic rate, accept the offer.

Bohr: Heisenberg, I have to say - if people are to be measured strictly in terms of observable quantities... Heisenberg: Then we should need a strange new quantum ethics.

Is science the disinterested pursuit of knowledge which the world may apply if it will? Or is it an activity always dependent upon economic and political demands?

My biggest concern is the misuse of science to support policies.

Each and every day, NOAA collects twice as much data as is contained in the entire book collection of the Library of Congress.

Companies that manufactured aspirin petitioned the White House. "The White House called and told us to cease and desist," recalled Foege. "Do a new study." The aspirin makers had been able to force the CDC to scrap its findings and slow down science. Foege had resigned after that. "The fact that they would risk the lives of children—it just bothered me so much," he said.

But not for him. "This is the crux of science," he'd say with enthusiasm. "All science is modeling. In all science you are abstracting from nature. The question is: is it a useful abstraction." Useful, to Bob Glass, meant: Does it help solve a problem?

if you are seeking to preserve a certain worldview, it actually helps to gut science.

Baseball—of all things—was an example of how an unscientific culture responds, or fails to respond, to the scientific method. As

Dan Satterfield, a meteorologist on CBS's Maryland affiliate, wrote. "This kind of thing should be condemned, and if you have an AccuWeather app on your smartphone, my advice is to stand up for science and replace it.

improvement in all weather predictions. The five-day-out forecast in 2016 was as accurate as the one-day-out forecast had been in 2005. In just the last few years, for the first time in history, a meteorologist's forecast of how hot it will be nine days from now is better than just guessing.

By then science perhaps didn't need her as much: the insights at the heart of her project had become the official policy of the United States government, and were spreading rapidly from the CDC to the rest of the world.

It confirmed Biederman's sense that "most advances in science come not from eureka moments but from 'hmmm, that's funny.

All the risks are science-based," said John MacWilliams when he saw the budget. "You can't gut the science. If you do, you are hurting the country. If you gut the core competency of the DOE, you gut the country.

El hombre es un artefacto determinista metido en un universo probabilístico

Of the roughly $9 billion spent each year by the Commerce Department, $5 billion goes to NOAA, and the bulk of that money is spent, one way or another, on figuring out the weather. Each and every day, NOAA collects twice as much data as is contained in the entire book collection of the Library of Congress.

In the middle of the Civil War, Lincoln had decided it was time to make U.S. agriculture more efficient: each person not needed on the farm was another person freed up to do something else. That's why the Department of Agriculture was created in the first place, as a vast science lab.

genomic sequencing

I'm sure in some way the neurosystem will one day be integrated with the computer," said Clark.

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said. The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.

Fracking—to take one example—was not the brainchild of private-sector research but the fruit of research paid for twenty years ago by the DOE.

sketches of Saussure's cyanometer, which distinguished the various blues in the sky.

Polanyi writes that there exists unspecifiable and unarticulated knowledge among scientists that is not susceptible to language and usually is dismissed in philosophy of science.

In so far as a theory cannot be tested by experience—or appears not capable of being so tested—it ought to be revised so that its predictions are restricted to observable magnitudes.