Quotes About Science

Split the atom's heart, and low Within it thou wilt find a sun.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. —Scientist Emerson M. Pugh

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

Moreover, data science (and business in general) is not so worried about statistical significance, but more concerned with optimizing overall effort and results.

Nowhere is the nexus between statistics and data science stronger than in the realm of prediction — specifically the prediction of an outcome (target) variable based on the values of other "predictor" variables.

The Phanerozoic Carbon Cycle

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

Whether we like the idea or not, humanity has the job of managing the planet, a process that can be in direct conflict with long-held beliefs and well-established practices, on the other hand, and with the urban romanticisation and anthropomorphization of animals (the Bambi syndrome), on the other. We need to change how we do things, but in ways that are driven as much by a respect for science and the realities of nature as by emotion.

We can well imagine Jews feeling a bit out of their element—maybe intimidated and shamed by their own story, which began in slavery, ended in exile, and with absolutely zero contributions to philosophy or science. "Some 'chosen people'! What kind of God did you say you follow? Apparently one who lets bad things happen to you.

I think of Christians who, having been raised to read the Genesis creation story as literal science and history, leave for college, watch the History Channel, or log onto the internet, and find out that fossils and radiometric dating are in fact not hoaxes. That's how nice Christian college freshmen become atheists by Christmas break. If your faith can unravel that quickly, it's enough to make you question whether your faith is worth the effort at all.

Seeing the similarities between these two stories should discourage us from expecting the Adam story to contribute to contemporary scientific debates about human origins (let alone guide those debates). Likewise, the similarities between Genesis and Atrahasis suggest that the biblical account cannot be labeled "historical," at least not in any conventional sense of the word.

With all due respect to Israel's primo king, David and I are not on the same page here. I'm more with the seventeenth-century philosopher Blaise Pascal, who lived when modern science was coming into its own, and who had public nervous breakdowns in his Pensées such as: "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.

The root of the conflict for many Christians is not scientific or even theological, but group identity and fear of losing what it offers.

It is a fundamental misunderstanding of Genesis to expect it to answer questions generated by a modern worldview, such as whether the days were literal or figurative, or whether the days of creation can be lined up with modern science, or whether the flood was local or universal. The question that Genesis is prepared to answer is whether Yahweh, the God of Israel, is worthy of worship.

We can look at the whole concept of God and spirituality from a vantage point built on logic and physics. Under such an intensive scientific scrutiny, religion always fails. Our knowledge of quantum cosmology is now sufficiently advanced to eliminate the notion of God altogether. The universe is an entirely natural phenomenon, if extraordinarily complex. It was not created by an external act of will.

weapons science was always kept very close to the government's chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity.

Time travel is pure bullshit, impossible; nobody can defeat causality or entropy.

Calabi-Yau manifold

Peter F. Hamilton

Laser radar guided the starship

Well, guess what happened when somebody's starship went poking around? The goddamn thing was packed full of scientists desperate to see what was inside. I mean, why you dumbasses see curiosity as one of your overriding virtues is anyone's guess. Ever heard of caution?

Astronomy post 2050 had effectively ceased to be a pure science.

Peter F. Hamilton

there could well be two alien species out there, both with weapons and technology so far ahead of ours it might as well be magic." "Thank you, Sir Arthur," Ozzie muttered. Nigel grinned at his old friend; he doubted anyone else in the room got the reference.