Quotes About Science

Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

The medical profession has had an especially persuasive claim to authority. Unlike the law and the clergy, it enjoys close bonds with modern science, and at least for most of the last century, scientific knowledge has held a privileged status in the hierarchy of belief.

What Mendeleyev was looking for amongst the elements appeared to be something very similar: a pattern listing the elements

Mendeleyev had realized that when the elements were listed in order of their atomic weights, their properties repeated in a series of periodic intervals. For this reason, he named his discovery the Periodic Table of the Elements.

Bombe atomique hier, bombe informatique aujourd'hui et, demain, bombe génétique?

Miracles do not go against the laws of nature; we only think that because we do not know nature's laws.

Experience and science agree that kettlebell training develops a wide range of attributes: strength and power, various types of endurance, muscle hypertrophy, fat loss, health, and more. The kettlebell swing has been known to improve the deadlift of elite powerlifters—and the running times of high-level long distance runners. This is what gireviks call "the What the Hell Effect." The kettlebell defies the laws of specificity.

Does peeing adversely affect makeup?

You are an artist," she said. "But then all scientists are artists, my father used to say. You think like an artist, at any rate, and I can see that you want what you create to be a work of art.

In Jill Bolte Taylor's book My Stroke of Insight, she points to scientific evidence showing that the life span of any particular emotion is only one and a half minutes. After that we have to revive the emotion and get it going again.

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.