Quotes About Science

But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Eski öjeni, uygun olanlar?n yetiÅŸtirilmesi ve uygun görülmeyenlerin yok edilmesi amac?yla sürekli seçme iÅŸlemi gerektirirdi. Yeni öjeni ise uygun olmayanlar?n her birinin olas? en yüksek genetik düzeye ç?kart?lmalar?na ilkece olanak verecektir.

If modern science made possible weapons of unprecedented destructiveness like the machine gun and the bomber, modern politics created a state of unprecedented power, for which a new word, totalitarianism, had to be coined.

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance.

I do not believe that the God who created all the universe, and who communes with His people through prayer and spiritual insight, would expect us to deny the obvious truths of the natural world that science has revealed to us, in order to prove our love for Him.

to apply scientific arguments to the question of God's existence, as if this were somehow a showstopper, is committing a category error.

Arno Penzias, the Nobel Prize–winning scientist who codiscovered the cosmic microwave background radiation that provided strong support for the Big Bang in the first place, states, "The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five Books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.

to apply scientific arguments to the question of God's existence, as if this were somehow a showstopper, is committing a category error

What, to use Noble Laureate Wigner's classic phrase, accounts for the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'?

In fact, genetic medicine has brought the problems of rare genetic conditions right to my own door.

Discoveries about genetics are not limited to just those 6,000 conditions of a strongly hereditary nature, however. We are now in the midst of a genetic revolution that will touch all of us in numerous ways:

In that context, I find theistic evolution, or BioLogos, to be by far the most scientifically consistent and spiritually satisfying of the alternatives. This position will not go out of style or be disproven by future scientific discoveries. It is intellectually rigorous, it provides answers to many otherwise puzzling questions, and it allows science and faith to fortify each other like two unshakable pillars, holding up a building called Truth.

Science's domain is to explore nature. God's domain is in the spiritual world, a realm not possible to explore with the tools and language of science. It must be examined with the heart, the mind, and the soul—and the mind must find a way to embrace both realms.

What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Intelligence is not a science.

Some people call it global warming some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.

you know we've all sinned a lot against science so we really ought to be as available as an apple on a bough pleasant thought fresh air free love cross-pollenization oh oh god how I'd love to dream let alone sleep

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.