Quotes About Science

If a planetary twin of the Earth exists in space, it has eluded us so far. But we have found about fifty super-Earths so far. Kepler-452b, which was discovered by the Kepler spacecraft in 2015 and is about 1,400 light-years from us, is particularly interesting. It is 50 percent bigger than our planet, so you would weigh more than you do on the planet Earth, but otherwise, living there may not be so different from living on Earth.

Finally, the basic principles of transhumanism, that humanity should not have to endure "nasty, brutish, and short" lives, when science can relieve suffering by enhancing the human race, were first clearly laid out by Julian Huxley in 1957.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

Also, antimatter is the most expensive form of matter in the world. At today's prices, a gram would go for about $70 trillion.

Decades later, in 2014, Amy Wagers at Harvard University reexamined this experiment. Much to her surprise, she found the same rejuvenation effect among mice. She then isolated a protein called GDF11 that seems to underlie this process. These results were so remarkable that Science magazine chose it as one of the ten breakthroughs of the year.

In other words, our destiny is to become the gods that we once feared and worshipped. Science will give us the means by which we can shape the universe in our image.

Another planet has been discovered that apparently may be made of diamonds. It is called 55 Cancri e and is about double the size of the Earth but weighs about eight times more.

historians believe that the telescope ranks as perhaps the most seditious instrument ever introduced in the history of science because it challenged the powers that be and forever altered our relationship with the world around us.

the human eye can recognize the equivalent of about a million pixels, and a person needs at least 600 pixels to identify faces and familiar objects.)

But although we might one day avoid the death of the sun with our spaceships, how will we avoid the death of the universe itself?

When Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, was born in 1978, the technology that made it possible was denounced by many clergymen and columnists, who believed that we were playing God. Today there are more than five million test tube babies in the world; your spouse or best friend may be one.

There's the object of perception, which is the truth, and there's our interpretation of the truth, which is just a point of view. The truth is objective, and we call it science. Our interpretation

Teaching social science is at its best meant assisting students in making connections across time and place, both seeking common humanity and coming to understand broad historical and political forces.

El pensamiento científico es tal vez el mejor método disponible para avanzar a través de territorios impredecibles, desconocidos y complejos, porque nos hace más adaptables y creativos frente a la incertidumbre.

Ah, professor, if only you had discovered a way of rejuvenating hair!" Chapter 2

But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.

The old duality of body and soul has become shrouded in scientific terminology, and we can laugh at it as merely an obsolete prejudice. But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science, instantly fades away.

En travaux pratiques de physique, n'importe quel collégien peut faire des expériences pour vérifier l'exactitude d'une hypothèse scientifique. Mais l'homme, parce qu'il n'a qu'une seule vie, n'a aucune possibilité de vérifier l'hypothèse par l'expérience de sorte qu'il ne saura jamais s'il a eu tort ou raison d'obéir à son sentiment. (partie I, ch. 16)

Cum putea s? È™tie? Cum putea s? verifice? În orele de fizic?, orice elev poate s? fac? experienÈ›e spre a verifica exactitatea unei ipoteze È™tiinÈ›ifice. Omul îns?, pentru faptul c? dispune doar de o singur? via??, nu are nicio posibilitate s? verifice ipoteza prin experien??, drept care nu va afla niciodat? dac? a greÈ™it sau dac? a f?cut bine dând ascultare sentimentelor sale.

Qualsiasi studente nell'ora di fisica può provare con esperimenti l'esattezza di un'ipotesi scientifica. L'uomo, invece, vivendo una sola vita, non ha alcuna possibilità di verificare un'ipotesi mediante un esperimento, e perciò non saprà mai se avrebbe dovuto o no dare ascolto al proprio sentimento.

Dar, e de-ajuns s? iube?ti la nebunie ?i s? auzi chior?itul ma?elor, pentru ca unitatea dintre trup ?i suflet, aceast? iluzie liric? a erei ?tiin?ifice, s? se destrame pe loc.

Mas basta amar loucamente e ouvir o ruído dos intestinos para que a unidade da alma e do corpo, ilusão lírica da era científica, imediatamente se desfaça

I know why superman left krypton. Earth was the only place where he could get steriods!

Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it.