Quotes About Science

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution

An important aspect of being a scientist isn't just knowing the math, but also knowing of imagination.

Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

Science is organized knowledge.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.

When I die I want my body to donate for research, but more specifically to a scientist who is working on bringing dead bodies back to life.

Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog few people are interested, and the frog dies.

There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends.

In the early days of space travel, one interesting problem emerged from experiments with weightlessness. Americans found that ... normal ink pen would not work without gravity feed. Scientists undertook extensive research, finally developed high-technology pen to work in conditions of no gravity. In Russia, scientist faced with the same problem found a different solution. Instead of pen, they used pencil.

Now I had discovered something even better - polymerisation depends on sharing. An atom which is short of an electron looks out for another atom that's got the right sort of electron (it's called covalency, for the chemically inclined), then the atom grabs the electron it needs. But no theft or nastiness is involved. Two atoms end up sharing the electron, and that's what holds all the atoms together in one beautiful long endlessly repeating dance - the beauty of glue!

Oral Sex Won't Cause Brain Freeze.

Si el hemisferio izquierdo del cerebro fue el que dio lugar a la física newtoniana, el derecho es el que ha dado lugar a la física cuántica.

Es importante recordar que el hemisferio cerebral que procesa los sonidos de la naturaleza es el derecho. Si nos damos cuenta, toda la ciencia actual, sobre todo a partir de Newton, se basa en esta percepción: existimos nosotros y existe un universo externo a nosotros. Esta misma separación afectó profundamente a las religiones al considerar que estábamos nosotros por una parte y allí a lo lejos habitaba un Dios o una serie de dioses.

Emotions can even affect whether certain genes are turned "on" or "off"—altering, for example, our bodies' response to stress.

The key point to keep in mind, however, is that symmetry is one of the most important tools in deciphering nature's design.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.