Quotes About Science

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'

Y la elección de Lindbergh me había dejado muy claro que el despliegue de lo imprevisto estaba en todas partes. Lo impecablemente imprevisto, que había dado un vuelco erróneo, era lo que en la escuela estudiábamos como "historia", una historia inocua donde todo lo inesperado en su época está registrado en la página como inevitable. El terror de lo imprevisto es lo que oculta la ciencia de la historia, que transforma el desaire en épica.

For scientists, not knowing is exciting. It's an opportunity to discover; the more that is unknown, the greater the opportunity.

In one of history's great ironies, scientists today know vastly more than their colleagues a century ago, and possess vastly more data-crunching power, but they are much less confident in the prospects for perfect predictability.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ALBERT EINSTEIN

In the study of scientific atheism, there was the idea that religion divides people. Now we see the opposite: love for God can only unite.

Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.

The farther and more deeply we penetrate into matter, by means of increasingly powerful methods, the more we are confounded by the interdependence of its parts.

Fire, air, earth, and water are bodies and therefore solids, and solids are contained in planes, and plane rectilinear figures are made up of triangles.

Un buen consejo viene de la ciencia y no de las riquezas.

As being is to becoming, so is pure intellect to opinion. And as intellect is to opinion, so is science to belief, and understanding to the perception of shadows.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, logic; of the third, insight.

better not to do than to do, better to meditate than to act, better his astrophysics, the threshold of the Unknowable, than my chemistry, a mess compounded of stenches, explosions, and small futile mysteries

She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better. Define BETTER with that guy. Not all fangs and raaaaar.

You never heard ofplugging her in ? My God, Myrnin, you made a vampire computer?

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader. - Claire Danvers

I love it when you talk dirty physics.

Funny how physics didn't go away when you were murdered.

Y si eres tan lista como pareces, deberías saber que es una estupidez creer que la ciencia lo resuelve todo. A veces suceden cosas. Cosas que la física o las mates o esa mierda que se mide en el laboratorio no puede explicar. Las personas no pueden reducirse mediante leyes o principios, Claire. Son... chispas. Chispas de algo hermoso y formidable. Y algunas chispas brillan más que otras

Alchemy is a science, but a science that acknowledges certain principles of magic. This. . . this is a mathematical expression of quintessence, Archimedes' fifth element, which binds all things together.