Quotes About Science

Science never sucks, it vacuums!

Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!

women could never be in the space program, since in zero G a woman's breasts would bounce and keep the men from concentrating.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By reading any text of popular science we quickly regain the sense of the absurd, but this time it is a sentiment that can be held in our hands, born of tangible, demonstrable, almost consoling things. We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

Libre el bebé y fajado el hombre, la pediatra de adultos, Dama Ciencia abre su consultorio, hay que evitar que el hombre se deforme por exceso de sueños, fajarle la visión, manearle el sexo, enseñarle a contar para que todo tenga un número. A la par la moral y la ciencia (no se asombre, señora, es tan frecuente) y por supuesto la sociedad que sólo sobrevive si sus células cumplen el programa.

Probablemente la única áncora de salvación sea la ciencia, el uranio 235, esas cosas. Pero además hay que vivir.

La ciencia tiene frente al arte una gran desventaja: que la ciencia es provisional, es decir, suceptible de mejora.

a comfortable consumer civilization of socialized human animals, aided by all the discoveries of science and industry and reproducing demographically in a squirming, catastrophic crescendo.

The revulsion towards and violent detachment from nature leads to its desecration, to the destruction of the organic conception of the world as a cosmos, as an order of forms reflecting a higher meaning, as the 'visible manifestation of the invisible' - a conception (of Indo-European origin) which is an integral part of the Classical view of the world and which also lies at the basis of various forms of knowledge of a different sort compared to profane, modern science.

Wisdom in hindsight is, after all, our only exact science.

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

History is more than data, more than facts, more than science and scholarship. These things are merely the means to a greater end. History is a story—the story of ourselves. Where do we come from? How have we survived? How can we avoid the mistakes of the past? Do we matter, and if we do, what is our proper place upon the earth?

One day you have Einstein, puzzling over the theory of relativity, the next you've got the Manhattan Project and a big hole in the ground.

History is more than data, more than facts, more than science and scholarship. These things are merely the means to a greater end. History is a story—the story of ourselves. Where do we come from? How have we survived? How can we avoid the mistakes of the past? Do we matter, and if we do, what is our proper place upon the earth? I

In 1945, scientific knowledge leaped way ahead of our maturity as a species. We are still lagging way behind.

For me, science wasn't about the big picture but the small one—the

But as love turns to grief, and grief becomes anger, so must anger yield to thought, in order to know itself. My symbolic properties were inarguable. Made by science, I was a perfect industrial product, the very embodiment of mankind's indefatigable faith in itself. Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance.

Magic is just a term people use for things they're too primitive to understand properly.

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

if medical science is geography, then mankind as a species has a map with three towns marked on it and a lot of blank space with drawings of sea serpents.

The truth is, almost every solid idea that comes from science is in some sense an abstraction rather than a 'real' thing.

Science aims at a closer relation between word and fact.

To be sure, physicists have faith in string theory because, in some important sense, at least, it seems to work - just as people fly in airplanes because they work. The difference is, somebody understands how jets work. And no one, as yet, understands what underlies string theory.