Quotes About Science

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

There are many people who say there's a God somewhere up there but, God is nothing more than a formula. Just a part of some law of physics that we have yet to understand.

El populismo vive en un mundo de fe e instinto, no de datos y ciencia.

I stand so much in need, is neglected. My servants aspire to science in order to please you, and all neglect nothing so much as what they have to do. To argue is the occupation of the whole of my household, and argument banishes reason from it The one burns my roast, while reading some history; the other dreams of verses, while I am asking for something to drink.

Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing.

Women, it was believed, simply didn't have the mind for science or medicine—in spite of the fact that Marie Curie had just become the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice.

Philosophy is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered; it is a question of what the propositions actually mean. The content, soul, and spirit of science naturally consist in what is ultimately meant by its sentences; the philosophical activity of rendering significant is thus the alpha and omega of all scientific knowledge. [Moritz Schlick interpreting Ludwig Wittgenstein's position]

Albertus Magnus, a thirteenth-century Dominican philosopher who performed experiments on plants, asserted: "Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

Medical science in the West began with the import of Greek and Arabic texts, especially the works of Galen and Avicenna, in the eleventh century. Salerno in Italy established the first medical school. It seems to have been astonishingly enlightened. After Salerno, medical schools were organized at Bologna, Montpellier, and elsewhere.

Geometry . . . is the science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. —THOMAS HOBBES

the nerve cells respond to electrical impulses much as an electron tube does.

The mathematics and science that developed in Europe after the Renaissance became much more dependent upon quantitative results and hence upon the use of all types of numbers.

mathematicians of that century, like those of most great periods, were the very physicists and astronomers who raised the questions,

I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.

The person who tasted the darkness of ignorance realized that science is light.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

only one man lived who could understand Gibbs 's papers. That was Maxwell , and now he is dead.

Broadly conceived, however, ecology deals with the balance of nature. Inasmuch as nature includes man, the science basically deals with the harmonization of nature and man. This focus has explosive implications. The explosive implications of an ecological approach arise not only from the fact that ecology is intrinsically a critical science--in fact, critical on a scale that the most radical systems of political economy failed to attain--but it is also an integrative and reconstructive science.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.