Quotes About Science

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knowledge of some sort of sick white science

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.

The size of the Earth has been known for more than two thousand years, although the number was lost or disputed when the Earth went from being round to being flat again in the Middle Ages (under the prodding of Christian heaven-watchers, the Greek philosophers' [Eratosthenes 276-194 BC] work was erased in Europe and preserved only by Muslim scientists in the Middle East and North Africa).

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

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ART (aka Asshole Research Transport)

It's one thing to poke a murderbot with a governor module; poking a rogue murderbot is a whole different proposition.

I don't like planets. There's dust and weather, and something always wants to eat the humans.

Look, if there were space monsters, they probably wouldn't need a pressurized environment, right?

Asshole Research Transport

machine-readable code written into human DNA

I often succumb to poetic notions, despite the gripping science.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs.

Let us hope that Lysenko's success in Russia will serve for many generations to come as another reminder to the world of how quickly and easily a science can be corrupted when ignorant political leaders deem themselves competent to arbitrate scientific disputes.

journalist of the occult, and a firm believer in ghosts, poltergeists, levitations, dowsing, PK (psychokinesis), ESP, and every other aspect of the psychic scene. After dismissing classical astrology as pseudoscience, in his four-column entry on astrology, Wilson goes on to defend what he calls "astro- biology"-the view that positions of the sun, moon, and planets strongly influence human personality and behavior.

Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle.

The reflex is physiology below the collar button. Psychology is physiology above the collar button.

Physiology is the stepchild of medicine. That is why Cinderella often turns out the queen.

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history.