Quotes About Science

There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology.

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one's place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159)

evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.

Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non -A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

Evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conservatives, and by accepting–and embracing–the theory of evolution, Christians and conservatives strengthen their religion, their politics, and science itself. The conflict between science and religion is senseless. It is based on fears and misunderstandings rather than on facts and moral wisdom. (138)

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

when the science community shuts its collective mind to what Mother Nature might do because it's just too scary to contemplate, as some have done with Ebola virus transmission, we surely won't be better prepared for the next biologic curveball, whatever it happens to be.

It may be possible in the not-too-distant future to use CRISPR to create whole new species.

The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

Unlike normal photographs, every small fragment of a piece of holographic film contains all the information recorded in the whole.

Josephson believes Bohm's implicate order may someday even lead to the inclusion of God or Mind within the framework of science, an idea Josephson supports.

If left to my own devices, though, I'd also eat Ben & Jerry's brownie batter ice cream until I weighed six hundred pounds, but somehow I manage to stop myself when my pants start to get a little tight around the middle. But to each his own. And if you're going to do something that might piss off your partner, you might as well have science on your side.

Science is about proving things wrong, it's not about proving things right. What you're trying to do is break your strategy.

As scientists and other logically minded people often point out, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

Note to creationists: life and evolution are as inseparable as Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.)

Yes, photons impart momentum despite having less mass than a lapsed Catholic.)

As soon as the genome had been cmpletely decoded (which would be in a matter of months) humanity would have complete control of its evolution; when that happened sexuality would be seen for what it really was: a useless, dangerous, and regressive function.

In all of human history there may never have been a mind as brilliant as Isaac Newton's—just think what an amazing, unheard-of intellectual effort it took to discover a single law that accounted for the fall of earthly bodies and the movement of the planets! Well, Newton believed in God.

Newton se ocupa de la manzana que cae; Dom Pérignon, de la vid que sale de la tierra. El primero encierra el cosmos en fórmulas; el segundo, en botellas. El

La práctica de la astronomía y la voluntad científica vacían el cielo cristiano como una bañera llena de agua residual. La física es una antimetafísica; permite una ontología material

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Una de las maneras de hacer que la ciencia se detenga sería hacer experimentos únicamente en las áreas de las que se conoce la ley.

Si la ciencia ha de avanzar, lo que necesitamos es la capacidad de experimentar, honestidad a la hora de informar de los resultados (los resultados han de difundirse sin que nadie diga cómo le hubiera gustado que fueran los resultados) y finalmente, una cosa importante, la inteligencia para interpretar los resultados.