Quotes About Science

Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

Un ejemplo muy influyente de eso fue el uso que Sheldon Wolin hizo de Kuhn para cuestionar la supuesta objetividad de la tendencia «conductista» en las ciencias políticas, una disciplina que se decía seguidora del mismo camino metodológico de las ciencias físicas. «Hasta cierto punto», dijo Wolin, lo que importa no es cuál es el verdadero paradigma, sino cuál es el que tiene que implantarse».

Lawrence Freedman

The word strategy only came into general use at the start of the nineteenth century. Its origins predated Napoleon and reflected the Enlightenment's growing confidence in empirical science and the application of reason.

I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.

I don't mind not knowing. It doesn't scare me. —RICHARD FEYNMAN

To be scientifically illiterate is to remain essentially uncultured. And the chief virtue of a cultural activity--be it art, music, literature, or science--is the way it enriches our lives.

the history of science cannot be written by pulling scientific 'firsts' out of their historical context, but only by seeing with eyes and minds of our historical characters.

In the case of the SF genre, the basic rule was, is, and always has been: Come up with a startling idea and set it loose in astonishing ways in a future world.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

Those laboratory animals have done us no harm. They are tortured and murdered in the name of science. I know, I used to do it myself to my great shame. Is the benefit to humanity worth the sacrifice of so many animal lives? I say, No.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity and knowledge seeking, and the ability to put it all together. There is a genuine spirituality about Darwin's thinking.

We sleep researchers like cats, you know; they sleep a lot!

It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is time that we examined ourselves as to our faith and tried to know what we believe and why, and on what we base our belief.

If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

Embalming fluid is highly carcinogenic

In one second of time, the conscious mind utilizes two thousand neurons. In the same second, you subconscious mind utilizes four billion neurons

Some of its proponents like to say that string theory is a piece of twenty-first- century mathematics that has, by our good fortune, fallen into our hands in the twentieth century.