Quotes About Science

Did you know that if a person talks out loud to a plant consistently, it will grow faster? Look, I didn't believe it when I first heard it either. But it's true! Matter of fact, one study showed that plants not only grow better when talked to regularly, but that a woman's voice makes a plant grow faster than a man's.1 Okay, now ladies! Talk about girl power. Your voice—your inner voice too—gives life to whatever you give it to.

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.

To understand the precise point when the possible becomes the impossible, you have to appreciate and understand the laws of physics.

intelligence seems to be correlated with the complexity with which we can simulate future events

After the day's active life, we spend at least a few hours quietly to develop our aesthetic, theoretical, and spiritual understanding of the way of life. By either reading, writing, performing, or thinking and meditating, we should continuously refine our personality and deepen our understanding of art, literature, science, philosophy, religion, and various other arts.

The puzzle for psychology is how people maintain views of the world that are contrary to the evidence. Why, for example, is the USA both a powerhouse of science and scientific discovery, while at the same time it demonstrates a rapid growth in fundamentalist religious sects that deny or distort the very evidence that science presents?

I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.

Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Toda ley es una ley de ritmo, y el ritmo es el amor. He aquí que la divina mañana, virginidad del día, me trae un descubrimiento: el amor es el ritmo. La ciencia del ritmo son las matemáticas; la expresión sensible del amor es la música.

Si ha habido quien se ha burlado de Dios, ¿por qué no hemos de burlarnos de la Razón, de la Ciencia y hasta de la Verdad? Y si nos han arrebatado nuestra más cara y más íntima esperanza vital, ¿por qué no hemos de confundirlo todo para matar el tiempo y la eternidad y para vengarnos?

El amor es el ritmo. La ciencia del ritmo son las matemáticas; la expresión sensible del amor es la música. La expresión, no su realización; entendámonos.

el amor es el ritmo. La ciencia del ritmo son las matemáticas; la expresión sensible del amor es la música.

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?

There was a time when it was admirable to be an amateur poet or a dilettante scientist, because it meant that the quality of life could be improved by engaging in such activities. But increasingly the emphasis has been to value behavior over subjective states; what is admired is success, achievement, the quality of performance rather than the quality of experience.

For better or for worse, at this time science is still the most trustworthy mirror of reality, and we ignore it only at our peril.

The mental framework that makes science enjoyable is accessible to everyone. It involves curiosity, careful observation, a disciplined way of recording events, and finding ways to tease out the underlying regularities in what one learns. It also requires the humility to be willing to learn from the results of past investigators, coupled with enough skepticism and openness of mind to reject beliefs that are not sup-ported by facts.

Neither parents nor schools are very effective at teaching the young to find pleasure in the right things. Adults, themselves often deluded by infatuation with fatuous models, conspire in the deception. They make serious tasks seem dull and hard, and frivolous ones exciting and easy. Schools generally fial to teach how exciting, how mesmerizingly beautiful science or mathematics can be; they teach the routine of literature or history rather than the adventure.

nothing in the world is entirely positive; every power can be misused. Love may lead to cruelty, science can create destruction, technology unchecked produces pollution. Optimal experience is a form of energy, and energy can be used either to help or to destroy.

Scientists often describe the autotelic aspects of their work as the exhilaration that comes from the pursuit of truth and of beauty. What they seem to describe, however, is the joy of discovery, of solving a problem, of being able to express an observed relationship in a simple and elegant form. So what is rewarding is not a mysterious and ineffable goal but the activity of science itself. It is the pursuit that counts, not the attainment.

Science is very much fun. And I think women should have the opportunity to have fun.