Quotes About Science

Already there is a study that shows that when humans digest genetically modified foods, the artificially created genes transfer into and alter the character of the beneficial bacteria in the intestine

Nathanielsz is one of the scientists now brave enough to invoke the "L" word for Lamarck: "the transgenerational passage of characteristics by nongenetic means does occur. Lamarck was right, although transgenerational transmission of acquired characteristics occurs by mechanisms that were unknown in his day.

No matter how you cut it, biological science is based to some degree on humanizing the subject matter.

The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the power of all true science. — Albert Einstein

Of course there is no doubt that some diseases, like Huntington's chorea, beta thalassemia, and cystic fibrosis, can be blamed entirely on one faulty gene. But single-gene

atoms are made out of invisible energy, not tangible matter! So

epigenetics, a booming field of biology that is unraveling the mysteries of how the environment influences the behavior of cells without changing the genetic code.

Es obvio que los seres humanos poseen una gran capacidad para aferrarse a las falsas creencias con fanatismo y tenacidad, y los científicos racionalistas no son ninguna excepción.

Estamos viviendo una época apasionante, ya que la ciencia está a punto de desintegrar los viejos mitos y de reescribir una creencia básica de la civilización humana.

The science and engineering of programming just isn't good enough to produce flawless software, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. The

Science tore the human race to bits. When anarchy hit, people struggled for community. The politicians chose enemies so that they could bind their followers with hate and terror. Community isn't enough when a thousand new ways of life beckon from every circuit and test tube.

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

The branch of logic is the husband of all sciences. It is indispensable to rationalize them but alone is arid and does not generate the child that is knowledge.

Si esas personas mantienen la calma es porque están seguros de que los datos de los científicos han sido manipulados por fuerzas oscuras, y en todo caso son tan exagerados que hay que resistir valientemente las opiniones de aquellos que se llaman "catastrofistas" y aprender, como dicen, "a conservar la cordura" viviendo como antes, sin preocuparse demasiado.

Scientific achievements held to be correct should be just as amenable to sociological analysis as those thought to be wrong. Thirdly, emphasis on the "social" has led commentators to argue for some redress of an imbalance: not enough attention is thought to have been paid to the "technical." For example, Whitley has argued that sociological interest in science is in danger of turning into a sociology of scientists rather than a fully fledged sociology of science:

Man macht sich gar nicht klar genug, dass die gesamte Politik der Gegenwart auf das Problem der Klimaleugnung fokussiert ist.

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

Science is not a neutral or innocent commodity which can be employed as a convenience by people wishing to partake only of the West's material power. Rather it is spiritually corrosive, burning away ancient authorities and traditions. It cannot really co-exist with anything.

Scientists need to be observed and criticized more than any other members of society. I say this not just because of the horrors that might emerge from their laboratories, but also because of the necessity for making them as morally and philosophically answerable as the rest of us.

The whole point I am making is that a hard, irreducible sense of our own self-awareness has been progressively denied us by the inroads of science both as a form and as a creator of our society.

Even if it could be shown that all explanations can be reduced ultimately to those of science, and even if all the reductions were then to be carried out, the mystery of the world as such would be as great at the end of the process as it had been at the beginning.

Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.

Ironically, although the Y-chromosome has become synonymous with male aggression, it is intrinsically unstable. Adam is as much cursed as cursing.

The Nature of the Beast. I have always been curious about other human species