Quotes About Science

So much science has at its root the ability to see afresh what has been seen and thought to be understood for centuries.

There's no scientific basis for it." He'd go on about climate and exposure to sunlight and the beginning of agriculture and diet and all sorts of factors, but she was fascinated at the concept that so-called white people were simply descended from people whose environment left them with a need to absorb more vitamin D from the sun.

If you mix a liquid with gunpowder and ignite it, and it burns with a steady blue flame, then the liquid must be at least fifty percent alcohol, and that's PROOF. That's the way they proved a liquid was alcohol in the 17th century when distilled spirits were first taxed, and that's what is meant by proof to this day

Next came the thesis by Hillman's late friend, Evangelos Christou. In his introduction to Logos of the Soul, Hillman would write about how psychotherapy's legitimacy was "based on the soul" and the failure to make this clear "has resulted in psychologies which are bastard sciences and degenerate philosophies." Christou's was "a document humain attesting to the mystery of the soul.

Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

WYATT: What kind of sound waves? DR. BAZELON: Tapes of the cries of baby mice. This sound reaches a level of forty thousand cycles per second. It's the purest thing in nature.

Once, probably, I used to think that vagueness was a loftier kind of poetry, truer to the depths of consciousness, and maybe when I started to read mathematics and science back in the mid-70s I found an unexpected lyricism in the necessarily precise language that scientists tend to use My instinct, my superstition is that the closer I see a thing and the more accurately I describe it, the better my chances of arriving at a certain sensuality of expression.

He tried to read his way into sleep but only grew more wakeful. He read science and poetry. He liked spare poems sited minutely in white space, ranks of alphabetic strokes burnt into paper. Poems made him conscious of his breathing. A poem bared the moment to things he was not normally prepared to notice.

How deep is time? How far down into the life of matter do we have to go before we understand what time is?

Today they are food stylists for NASA.

The Stanford Linear Accelerator 3-Day Particle-Smashing Diet.

In the 1980s, in writing The Design of Everyday Things, I didn't take emotions into account. I addressed utility and usability, function and form, all in a logical, dispassionate way—even though I am infuriated by poorly designed objects. But now I've changed. Why? In part because of new scientific advances in our understanding of the brain and of how emotion and cognition are thoroughly intertwined.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.

We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art.

Most marketing agents believe marketing is an art, not a science. We disagree. While there is art involved, it is very much a science. A science you can learn.

But do you really think," he said, concerned, "that one can call psychology a science?" "Certainly. What else is it?" "But even Plato knew that class and conditioning and so forth have an inalterable effect on the individual. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.

Sometimes I wondered exactly what it might take to break Andy out of his math-nerd turret: a tidal wave? Decepticon invasion? Godzilla tromping down Fifth Avenue? He was a planet without an atmosphere.

The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.

Dr. Klaus Mampell from Germany reportedly said that he didn't see any more reason for seeing us (the human race) connected with apes than with canary birds or kangaroos.

In science, having more data is always preferred. In life, secrets and lies make society manageable.

In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling 's Rules. We had all been using Pauling 's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were.

technique is an individually acquired and socially secured way of doing something; a science is a way of understanding how to do it in order to do it better.

Marx, Engels, and Lenin have carried on the tradition of rational and non-mystical approach to all human problems; this is the tradition of the best Greek philosophers and the founders of modern science. Careful analysis; separation of factors; the following of causes into their effects; reliance on experiments; all are taken over into Marxism and provide it with a hard scientific core. There is nowhere any pandering to special intuitions or spiritual experiences.

Already we have in the practice of science the prototype for all human action. The task which the scientists have undertaken — the understanding and control of nature and of man himself — is merely the conscious expression of the task of human society.