Quotes About Science

You going to be a scientist when you grow up?" That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

Perhaps some particles move backwards in time; perhaps the future affects the past in some way we don't understand; or perhaps the universe is simply more aware than we are. There are many things we haven't yet learned how to read.

A genuine scientist would love the subject for itself; I think I love science for the stories that are told about it.

I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn't any God at all

there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.

The wave function of this situation is going to collapse quite soon.

El aletiómetro advierte de aterradoras consecuencias si lord Asriel continúa investigando.

And as Lindbergh's election couldn't have made clearer to me, the unfolding of the unforeseen was everything. Turned wrong way round, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied as History, harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

Los científicos coinciden en que tan solo alcanzamos el diez por ciento de nuestro potencial humano. En cambio, cuando establecemos el centro de nuestras actividades en el silencio, nuestro potencial se vuelve ilimitado.

It wasn't hard work. It was methodical. I'm good at methodical stuff, so I didn't mind. But other people do. They think it's a dirty job. I wondered if this was the reason Captain Skyler had brought me along, so no one else would have to do it. But I'm a scientist. I think it's exciting. Most of science is gathering a lot of fact and looking for patterns. And it's not a dirty job.

Wir müssen wissen, wir werden wissen.

Wir dürfen nicht denen glauben, die heute mit philosophischer Miene und über-legenem Tone den Kulturuntergang prophezeien und sich in dem Ignorabimus gefallen. Füruns gibt es kein Ignorabimus, und meiner Meinung nach auch für die Naturwissenschaftüberhaupt nicht. Statt des törichten Ignorabimus heisse im Gegenteil unsere Lösung: Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen.

Only an idiot could believe that scientific truth needs martyrdom; that may be necessary in religion, but scientific results prove themselves in due time

Calculate the fine structure constant from first principles.

Cryptology served magical purposes frequently throughout the Middle Ages, and even in the Renaissance was still disguising important parts of alchemical formulas.

But of any science of cryptanalysis, there was nothing. Only cryptography existed. And therefore cryptology, which involves both cryptography and cryptanalysis, had not yet come into being so far

I have to keep reminding myself -- this is not me . It is chemistry. It is biology. It is not who I am.

My voice is blind, my hearing is mute, my sight is deaf. Art is science, mathematics is conversation, and music is something that bleeds. I am so far away that I am inside myself. I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

Faced with an impressive and rapidly developing scientific image of the human animal, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that our mental states -the thoughts that we think, the passions that move us, and the decisions that mould our lives- are consequences of physiological processes ocurring in our brains.

Science is a tool, and if we were an esentially kind and peaceful species, it would not occur to us to use this tool for destructive purposes.

We exploit science to make war because we are warlike creatures.

First, an evolutionary perspective does not view sexual coercion as a biological imperative, as inevitable, or as ineluctable. Just as modern science has created novel vaccines and drugs to eliminate many "natural" diseases, with enough knowledge we can create personal, social, and legal environments that curtail or suppress the components of male psychology that contribute to sexual coercion.

Just as modern science has created novel vaccines and drugs to eliminate many natural diseases, with enough knowledge we can create personal, social, and legal environments that curtail or suppress the components of male psychology that contribute to sexual coercion.