Quotes About Science

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

University of Virginia—have collected that demonstrate that consciousness can exist without a brain being involved.

go to YouTube and search "Dr Bruce Greyson consciousness independent of the brain." A video of the lecture should come up at the top of the list.

He said brains are needed to recall memories, but it appears brains are not where memories are stored.

La tradición angloamericana se vio a sí misma como un paladín del proyecto de la Ilustración. Se alió con la ciencia, con el rigor, con la razón y con la objetividad, y rechazó con desprecio los extravíos especulativos de Hegel y los enredos de Kierkegaard. Estaba profundamente impregnada por la ciencia y la veía como la alternativa a la ahora desacreditada filosofía religiosa y especulativa.

Por qué los principales pensadores posmodernos son políticamente de izquierda, y en la mayoría de los casos de extrema izquierda? ¿Y por qué ese prominente segmento de la izquierda, la misma izquierda que tradicionalmente defendía sus posiciones con los fundamentos modernos de la razón, la ciencia, la justicia para todos y el optimismo, es ahora vocera de posturas antirazón, anticiencia, del vale todo en la guerra y en el amor, y del cinismo?

La Ilustración desarrolló aquellas características del mundo moderno que muchos dan sobradamente por sentado: política liberal y libre mercado, progreso científico e innovación tecnológica. Cada una de esas cuatro instituciones depende de la confianza en el poder de la razón.

For Hegel, therefore, all truly critical philosophy in the wake of Kant is governed by the following imperative: all 'presuppositions or assumptions must equally be given up when we enter into science'. Science – that is to say, philosophy – should thus be 'preceded by universal doubt, i.e.,

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers.

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.

Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest in being cured of their ignorance.

Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don't want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.

Science depends on dialectic in which only when thesis and antithesis are developed can there be an ultimate synthesis.