Quotes About Science

In Chapter 14, you can find out how the cell cycle is regulated and what happens when it goes awry.)

Tara Rodden Robinson

Genetics is a bit like peeking behind a movie's special effects to find a deceptively simple and elegant system running the whole show.

Galileo held the truths he had discovered to be of very great significance, but as soon as they endangered his life he recanted with the greatest of ease. He felt that whether the earth or the sun revolved around each other was not worth his life. He may also have felt that it was more important for him to live and work so that his students could spread the truth.

The first verses establish an immediate correspondence with what Revelation was later to recount about the creation of humankind: "He [God] taught Adam the names of all things."8 Reason, intelligence, language, and writing will grant people the qualities required to enable them to be God's khalifahs (vicegerents) on earth, and from the very beginning, Quranic Revelation allies recognition of the Creator to knowledge and science, thus echoing the origin of creation itself.9

His denomination, he says, is Empiricism. If you can't count it, measure it, or gauge wit with science, it didn't happen.

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up … making things that I think can change the world.

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

Science fiction and fantasy are very closely related genres, and a lot of people say that the genres are so close that there's actually no meaningful distinction to be made between the two. But I think that there does exist an useful distinction to be made between magic and science. One way to look at it is in terms of whether a given phenomenon can be mass-produced.

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose.

When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.

If those scientists could come up with some way to turn off the jerk circuit in guys' brains, I'd be all in favor of that.

what is the role of human scientists in an age when the frontiers of scientific inquiry have moved beyond the comprehension of humans?

We need not be intimidated by the accomplishments of metahuman science. We should always remember that the technologies that made metahumans possible were originally invented by humans, and they were no smarter than we.

I can vividly recall the way, after he had connected its arterial hoses to a wall-mounted lung he kept in the laboratory, he was able to manipulate the actuating rods that protruded from the arm's ragged base, and in response the hand would open and close fitfully.

I have given a version of that first lecture I saw, during which I opened the casing of my own arm and directed my students' attention to the rods that contracted and extended when I wiggled my fingers.

El corazón de cada Pronostic consiste en un circuito con un retraso negativo del tiempo; envía una señal atrás en el tiempo.

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose." And I had no response. I had always assumed those were one and the same, but what if they aren't? I don't know what to think now. It frightens me to imagine that you have never been listening at all.

Science is not just the search for the truth," he said. "It's the search for purpose." And I had no response.

There were no other conspicuous orifices; perhaps their mouth was their anus too. Those sorts of questions would have to wait.

Perhaps I'm merely envious of the Church's ability to raise money; forgive me for that, Lord. They are trying to celebrate your glory, Lord, just as we in the scientific community are, so I cannot disagree with them too strenuously. Our commonalities are more important than our differences.

When a prism was activated, a quantum measurement was performed inside the device, with two possible outcomes of equal probability:

But for me, science is the true modern cathedral, an edifice of knowledge every bit as majestic as anything made of stone.

Occam's razor or the law of parsimony, which states that when two theories compete to explain an unknown phenomenon we should err on the side of the simpler explanation.