Quotes About Science

El arte es la ciencia de lo inútil.

The point is, you won't necessarily know Whether you're living a science fiction reality.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing but medicine on a large scale.

uprooted and ruthless thinking which can create nuclear weapons in the name of the advancement of science while caring nothing for the threat it involves to all life on the planet.

Hollywood loves aliens.

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.

Dr. Fanchon Quills.

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

But magnets don't just attract. They also repel.

implementation science is more important than decision science.

It was true that a few years ago some wild enthusiast, a Whiggish civilian no doubt, had decreed that day should start at midnight; but Jack, though a scientific, forwardlooking officer, agreed with many of his fellow-captains in giving this foolish innovation no countenance whatsoever: besides, it had taken him years to persuade Stephen that nautical days really did start at noon, and he did not want his imperfect conviction to be shaken in any way at all.

Marxism is supposed to be a social science designed to see through hypocrisies and denial, but Marxism ended up as a kind of earplug, guaranteed to deafen its disciples.

Fear experiences can produce dramatic changes in the brain's architecture, resulting in profound alterations in our assumptions and perceptions.

Are you ready to bring back a weapon from another world?

The atheist philosopher of science Michael Ruse says that Dawkins's arguments are so bad that he's embarrassed to call himself an atheist.10

Everyone in the sciences secretly believes that mathematicians are smarter than they are. I think mathematicians also believe this. At

Sometimes the current even starts to flow in the other direction: sometimes, particularly in university math and science departments, nerds deliberately exaggerate their awkwardness in order to seem smarter.

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

In a democracy scientific institutions, research programmes, and suggestions must therefore be subjected to public control, there must be a separation of state and science just as there is a separation between state and religious institutions, and science should be taught as one view among many and not as the one and only road to truth and reality.

Most popular accounts of science and many philosophical analyses are therefor chimeras, pure and simple. They are distorted and misleading as a history of art which regards paintings as natural phenomena of a special kind without ever mentioning the individuals lingering in their neighborhood when they first appear.

or we don't – and disaster follows. It has become common to laugh at the absurdities of the climate-change deniers, but there is a rationality to their response. They know that climate science destroys their authority, their power and their economic world. In a way, they have grasped that if climate change is real, capitalism is finished.

Einstein wrote that the aim of science is to capture the connection between all experiential data 'in their totality' – and to do this 'by use of a minimum of primary concepts and relations'.

Einstein believed the truth of a theory is, for certain, borne out by whether it successfully predicts experience. But the relationship between the theory and the experience can only be grasped intuitively.