Quotes About Science

Yet the story of the 1918 influenza virus is not simply one of havoc, death, and desolation, of a society fighting a war against nature superimposed on a war against another human society. It is also a story of science, of discovery, of how one thinks, and of how one changes the way one thinks, of how amidst near-utter chaos a few men sought the coolness of contemplation, the utter calm that precedes not philosophizing but grim, determined action.

how individuals explore nature—how one does science. And the way one goes about answering a question, one's methodology, matters as much as the question itself. For the method of inquiry underlies knowledge and often determines what one discovers: how one pursues a question often dictates, or at least limits, the answer.

In particular, Brand has been constant in his commitment to science, which he refers to as the only "true news"; in his commitment to bottom-up democracy (with a small d); and in his relentless curiosity.

Certain English geologists produced confusion by embracing continental drift and then drawing up narratives and maps that showed continents moving all over the earth with respect to a fixed and undriftable England.

The sea is not all that responds to the moon. Twice a day the solid earth bobs up and down, as much as a foot.

There are some great mysteries here, which each of us is better placed to understand than any sceptical scientist or religious zealot, simply because our Universe is not the same as theirs.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

Kim Il Sung University is the central base for training national cadres and the highest institute of Juche-based science and education.

You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.

We are really battling, today in the U.S., keeping science education in the forefront at the elementary level, and that's where the research shows that kids get interested.

When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.

Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?

Observations always involve theory.

We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.