Quotes About Science

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

We have no idea what's natural and what's man made. [...] There is no fingerprint of human-caused warming.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you.

I don't believe in ghosts, or fairies, or crystals, or unicorns, or a man that can walk on water, or any of that non sense, I personally rely on logic, and have for the better part of my life.

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn't work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and tear down old dogmas, to engage in an ongoing Titanomachia. Science flourishes where art and free speech flourish.

If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules

It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles to design electric can openers. From here on out, it's all can openers.

If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.

The fact that the scientific investigator works 50 percent of his time by nonrational means is, it seems, quite insufficiently recognized.

if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

His job on TV was to explain science to the general public and, as such, to act as a lightning for people who could not accept all the things that science implied about their worldview and their way of life, and who showed a kind of harebrained ingenuity in finding ways to refute it.

A more down-to-earth project run by the Soviets had determined that eight square meters of algae—an expanse of pond scum about the size of two ping-pong tables—was needed to keep a single human supplied with oxygen.

He had always admired his colleagues in the life and earth sciences who could hit the road on short notice with a fully stocked backpack and live rugged adventuresome lives in exotic locales. But he had admired them from a distance.