Quotes About Science

But it is on occasions like this that I always think how different everything would be if we in the Orient had developed our own science. Suppose for instance that we had developed our own physics and chemistry: would not the techniques and industries based on them have taken a different form, would not our myriads of everyday gadgets, our medicines, the products of our industrial art - would they not have suited our national temper better than they do?

Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.

The "principle of charity" and the "science of compassion" are both crucial to any attempt to understand discourse and ideas that initially seem baffling, distressing, and alien;

There was a growing conviction that religion had to become as rational as modern science.

advocates of evolutionary theory since Thomas H. Huxley (1825–95) have found altruism problematic.

He insisted that it was impossible to understand a single word of the Book of Nature without knowing the language of mathematics.

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. When humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science.)

Our parents met at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona at a high school summer science camp. I'd come to see the heavens, our father always said. But the stars were in her eyes, a line that used to please and embarrass me in equal measure. Young geeks in love.

intended as a dig at my father, the enterprise being another of science's excesses, like cloning or whisking up a bunch of genes to make your own animal. Antagonism in my family comes

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

She had a hard time believing a woman who had gone to nursing school would risk her children's lives over repeatedly disproven pseudoscience and the word of a former Playboy model. If anyone wanted a real-life documentation of the vital necessity of vaccines, they should look to the life of Helen

The triple point of water was indisputably the basis of the definition for the kelvin.

Sperm is high in fat and protein, which takes time for the digestive system to process.

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

As you proceed through your study of physics, you will find that every one of the measurable quantities that is discussed can be specified in terms of only four basic dimensions: mass, length, time, and electric charge. In this chapter, we will begin a study of the first three of these.

Physics deals with quantities that can be measured. Thus, you won't find concepts such as honesty, love, and courage as primary topics of discussion in a physics book. As

No science of religion (history, psychology, or sociology of religion) understands the reality of religion. Science can know and understand religions without the investigator's belonging to or having faith in any of them. Real faith is not knowable.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Non c'è via maestra per la scienza, e solo hanno una probabilità di raggiungerne le vette luminose coloro che non temono di affaticarsi a salirne i ripidi sentieri.

But at the entrance to science, as at the entrance to hell, the demand must be posted: 'Qui si convien lasciare ogni sospetto; Ogni vilta convien che qui sia morta.' Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned, ?All cowardice must needs be here extinct

At the same pace that mankind masters nature, man seems to become enslaved to other men or to his own infamy. Even the pure light of science seems unable to shine but on the dark background of ignorance. All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force. - Speech at anniversary of the People's Paper, April 1856

One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.