Quotes About Science

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the dead still obey the laws of physics, don't they?

We can employ bleach, for example, to strip electrons from molecules. Electrons are more than just the glue that holds molecules together — they are also responsible for color. By stripping molecules of electrons, or "oxidizing" them, we can therefore eliminate stains.

Joe Schwarcz

The ancient Greeks did not have a good grasp of genetics.

A recent survey showed that a third of all Europeans believe that only genetically engineered tomatoes contain genes. Otherwise, the fruits are "gene-free," and, presumably, "risk-free.

Joe Schwarcz

that a lithium ion battery stores 0.54 megajoules of energy per kilogram, while body fat stores 38 megajoules, and kerosene contains 43 megajoules

The most common and least expensive mushrooms—white button mushrooms—showed these strong benefits. If that's not enough great news about mushrooms, there's more.

You do not have to be a nutritional scientist or dietitian to figure out what to eat, and you don't need to mix and match foods to achieve protein completeness. Any combination of natural foods will supply you with adequate protein, including all eight essential amino acids as well as nonessential amino acids.

Dr. Fuhrman is the research director of the Nutritional Research Foundation. He is the author of several books

When many of us were children, we were taught that animal products were good for us because they were a biologically complete protein that was essential for good health. Research in the past ten years, however, has shown conclusively that high biological protein is the most damaging feature of animal products. 16

Modern science shows that most common ailments in today's world are the result of nutritional ignorance.

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People know less about nutrition than any other subject.

If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,—then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Sky-bound was the mind, earthbound the body rests.

If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance....These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of truth....In such manner did I dream of the truth.

Vegetables provide two to four times the protein anyone would need during any activity. Scientific studies tell us we need 2.5 percent of our calories in the form of protein. The World Health Organization has added a safety margin to protein requirements and says that we need 5 percent of our calories in the form of protein.

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God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia

You'll notice something interesting about the way scientists think: they don't start with data. They start with a hypothesis. Then they go to the data.

Science itself is learning how to better exploit negative results.