Quotes About Science

When a scientist tells you that 'the science is settled' in regard to any subject," Lamar said, "he's ceased to be a scientist, and he's become an evangelist for one cult or another. The entire history of science is that nothing in science is ever settled. New discoveries are continuously made, and they upend old certainties.

Parallel Universes and Quantum Reality

Planck minimums of space and time all the way to the gravitational fine-structure constant.

Moloch. That's the code name that Ringrock's masters of science have given to the subject of their research

They were conducting an experiment to learn to what extent sound has an effect, positive or negative, on algae.

those naive souls who believe what authorities tell them in the name of science.

Although science was never settled and was a perpetual process of discovery that undid past ideas, there were many who adamantly resisted all evidence that didn't support the theories on which they had built their careers.

Bettinger bought his first genetic test in 2003. A few years later he launched a blog—The Genetic Genealogist—with the aim of explaining the science behind the tests in simple language.

Even the help wanted ads in the back of Science or Nature can give you a clue as to what technology is hot.

The Prohibition era had been a great source of material for building an excellent science of alcohol intoxication

did you know that way back in the 1980s some scientists proposed an ambitious effort called the Human Protein Project to map all human proteins? It never happened. Instead, the NIH backed the Human Genome Project for one big reason: Proteins were tough to study, while genes were far easier to sequence. The tools dictate the science.

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

To be an atheist is to believe the universe came about by itself, life came from non-life by itself, and consciousness came about by itself.

Any atheist who believes good and evil really exist, or life has a purpose beyond one he or she has made up, or that free will exists, or, for that matter, that science alone will explain how the universe came about, or how life arose from non-life, or how intelligence arose from non-intelligence, has suspended reason in favor of faith.

In our haste to modernize under the banner of science, we seem to have gone too far in casting out all mystery and magic from our world.

The helium drives oxygen from the brain, causing rapid brain death and leaves no traces.

Faith is as powerful a force as science-- but far more dangerous

Faith is as powerful a force as science, he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, but far more dangerous.

Well, I say it is the place of science only to observe, he said. To seek cause where it may be found, but to realize that there are many things in the world for which no cause shall be found; not because it does not exist, but because we know too little to find it. It is not the place of science to insist on explanation---but only to observe, in hopes that explanation will manifest itself.

Faith is as powerful a force as science," he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, "—but far more dangerous.

It is for this reason that a scientist constructs hypotheses—suggestions for the cause of an observation. But a hypothesis must never be confused with an explanation—with proof.

It is the place of science only to observe… To seek cause where it may be found, but to realize that there are many things in the world for which no cause shall be found; not because it does not exist, but because we know too little to find it. It is not the place of science to insist on explanation - but only to observe, in hopes that the explanation will manifest itself.

It is not the place of science to insist on explanation—but only to observe, in hopes that the explanation will manifest itself.

Faith is as powerful a force as science," he concluded, voice soft in the darkness, "—but far more dangerous." We