Quotes About Science

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.

Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

Science have imagination, most people doubt about that. This word "Doubt" makes a lot of stuff interesting.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Reductionism is merciless.

If geek means you're willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: 'Have you HEARD THIS?

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

Psychology is the science of mental life

An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper.

We are just a certain quantity of cells, all of us!

Human relationships are not rocket science—they are far, far more complicated. We can get our top scientists together and send people to the moon. Two speakers—male or female—can troubleshoot a carburetor in under an hour. But even the most creative and diligent scientists, much less two interested speakers, are unable to understand, explain, or agree on why actress Jennifer Lopez is attracted to the men she is or how long she will remain married to her current husband.

Knowledge is power," Francis Bacon said in a peculiarly prophetic moment. He was right; "modern" scientific knowledge has demonstrated its power for three centuries. With postmodernism, however, the situation is reversed. There is no purely objective knowledge, no truth of correspondence. Instead there are only stories, stories that, when they are believed, give the storyteller power over others.