Science Quotes
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...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!
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Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’. Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
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Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.
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Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
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If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.
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Bio-technology is the science of the future.
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I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.
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No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
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The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.
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The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.
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Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
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One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.
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The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.
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My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children - and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
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My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
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Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
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When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.
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Science advances one funeral at a time.
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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
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Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.
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Perhaps, for once, we should try interventions that are informed by science and proven to work.
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On the terrace of the Pepiniere, the 150 pupils of the Institut Chemique talk chemistry as they leave the auditoria and the laboratory. The echoes of the magnificent public garden of the city of Nancy make the words reverberate; coupling, condensation, grignardization. Moreover, their clothes stay impregnated with strong and characteristic odours; we follow the initiates of Hermes by their scent. In such an environment, how is it possible not to be productive?
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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
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Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.
