Quotes About Science

Rob J.' s revelation was science, a faith less comfortable and far less comforting. Truth was its deity, proof was its state of grace, doubt was its liturgy. It held as many mysteries as other religions and was beset with shadowy trails that led to profound dangers, terrifying cliffs, and the deepest pits. No higher power shed a light to illuminate the dark and murky way, and he had only his own frail judgment with which to choose the paths to safety.

He realized the lesson was that science can take medicine only so far. Then it is helped tremendously if there is faith or belief in something else.

Si nunca has estudiado filosofía, ¿cómo puedes rechazarla? La ciencia y la medicina se ocupan del cuerpo, mientras la filosofía trata de la mente y del alma, tan necesarias para un médico como la comida y el aire.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise human science is at a loss.

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is that 40 percent of the US population does not see why it is a problem, since Christ is returning in a few decades. About the same percentage believe that the world was created a few thousand years ago. If science conflicts with the Bible, so much the worse for science. It would be hard to find an analogue in other societies.

If we are biological organisms, not angels, then our cognitive faculties are similar to those called "physical capacities" and should be studied much as other systems of the body are.

W]e have a democracy that uses free elections to put in place known obstructionists, and a media that disproportionately gives a forum to economically driven ideology over sound science.

People want to explore, we want to press our capacities to their limits, we want to appreciate what we can. But the joy of creation is something very few people get the opportunity to have in our society: artists get to have it, craftspeople have it, scientists.

What was exorcised was the Machine not the Ghost.

tomemos como ejemplo al nuevo director de un subcomité sobre el medio ambiente que explicó que el calentamiento global no puede ser un problema porque Dios le prometió a Noé que no habría otro diluvio.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

The beginning of science is the recognition that the simplest phenomena of ordinary life raise quite serious problems: Why are they as they are, instead of some different way?

The idea that you have to avoid teaching evolution or pretend you're not teaching it is unique in the industrial world. And the statistics are mind-boggling. Roughly half the population think the world was created a couple thousand years ago.

The new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. This is not pointed at anyone. —Max Planck

You can eat all sorts of things that are high in dietary cholesterol (like lobster and avocado and eggs) and they have NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER on your cholesterol count. NONE. WHATSOEVER. DID YOU HEAR ME?

We got distracted. Ty said I could come to the tasting. Maddy— Please. He's going to put my wine in. David glanced over. You're a brave man, MacMillan. You never spent an evening chugging any Run, Walk and Fall Down? With a grin, David covered Maddy's ears. Once or twice, and fortunately I lived to regret it. Your wine club might object to the addition. Yeah. The thought of that tickled Ty, too. It'll broaden their outlook. Or poison them. Please, Dad. It's for science.

Oppenheimer was right: 'I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Unsophisticated', he said, cracking himself up again, 'but nubile'. Jesus, where do they get that stuff? Nubile. Try to contain your hilarity. Sophia sat behind the desk in her office in the villa and continued to study the models Kris had chosen for the ads. And I'd appreciate it if you'd warn me the next time you decide to add a mystery vintage to the selection. Last-minute candidate. And it was in the name of science.

Science and education are part of what turned magic from the acceptable into the condemned, then into the dismissed.

Information is information, not matter or energy.

Professor Branestawm

if someone ever asks you, "Do you believe in evolution?" you should ask that person, "What do you mean by evolution? Do you mean micro- or macroevolution?" Microevolution has been observed; but it cannot be used as evidence for macroevolution, which has never been observed.

Andy Stanley put it well: "My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school science teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

in order to find truth, one must be ready to give up those subjective preferences in favor of objective facts. And facts are best discovered through logic, evidence, and science.