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Quotes About Science

New Rule: Instead of using their $10 billion atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider to re-create the Big Bang by melting atom parts in temperatures a million times hotter than the sun, scientists should not do that. I'm just sayin' it sounds dangerous. I'm as interested as the next guy in determining the origin of matter, but first couldn't we solve some simple mystery, like why some-detector batteries always die at four a.m.?
~ Bill Maher
How in the world could there be any science in scripture. There cannot be because the two historical periods are separated by so much. (Modern science began in 2000 AD and the scriptures were written BC, well before that). The scriptures are NOT teaching science. It's very hard for me to accept not just a literal interpretation of scripture but a fundamentalist approach to religious belief. It's kind of a play, It presents itself as science.
~ Bill Maher
Scientific Progress goes boink?
~ Bill Waterson
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
~ Bill Watterson
23] 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.
~ Blaise Pascal
Nature does nothing to avoid the vacuum; rather the weight of the air masses is the true reason for all these phenomena which we have been ascribing to an imaginary cause.
~ Blaise Pascal
Moms summarized. "So we have someone who was Spetsnaz, who was exposed to radiation and should have died but didn't, has had organ replacement and skin grafts at a level our science can't do, and armed with a weapon with metal we can't place." "Great," Nada muttered. "And he flies," Roland said. "Yo
~ Bob Mayer
He was at MIT for 42 years or something. He was a great—so I understand that stuff. You know, genetically.
~ Bob Woodward
Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false theories. Forward steps in art are governed by the law of attraction, are the result of imitation of and admiration for beloved predecessors.
~ Boris Pasternak
Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false theories. Faust was an artist thanks to the inspiring example of his teachers. Forward steps in art are governed by the law of attraction, are the result of the imitation of and admiration for beloved predecessors.
~ Boris Pasternak
Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false theories.
~ Boris Pasternak
That was the difference between science and the intelligence field. Scientists came up with an answer and used it to find facts while intelligence operatives came up with facts and used them to find an answer.
~ Brad Thor
Men sneered at vivisection, and yet look at its results today! Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain?
~ Bram Stoker
There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.
~ Bram Stoker
Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain?
~ Bram Stoker
Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new; and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young—like the fine ladies at the opera.
~ Bram Stoker
Ah,it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not,then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs,which think themselves new; and which are yet but old,which pretend to be young like fine ladys at the opera.
~ Bram Stoker
Timey-Wimey: Steven Moffat, Blink and J. W. Dunne's theories of Time'
~ Susanna Clarke
The old man was as passionately fond of science as we were. He knew how the World was made and was eager to pass that knowledge on to me.
~ Susanna Clarke
Even then I knew that the Tides were not random. I saw that if I could record and document them, I might be able to predict their appearance. That was the beginning of my Table.
~ Susanna Clarke
That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.
~ Susanna Kaysen
There are some scientists who frown upon such practices, believing that nature should run its course," Jane wrote in an early chapter of The Chimpanzees of Gombe, a scholarly compilation of her first twenty-six years of work. "It seems to me, however, that humans have already interfered to such a major extent, usually in a very negative way . . . with so many animals in so many places that a certain amount of positive interference is desirable.
~ Sy Montgomery
Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas modeled their approach on Jane Goodall's: they began their studies by relinquishing control. In the masculine world of Western science, where achievement is typically measured by mastery, theirs was an unusual approach.
~ Sy Montgomery
Then suddenly, we saw the voltmeter flash. "What's going on?" I asked Scott. "I thought the eel was asleep." "He is asleep," Scott answered. And then we both realized what was happening. The eel was dreaming.
~ Sy Montgomery