Science Quotes
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Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.
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When he Malevranche happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through it, bought it and "read it with so much pleasure that he was forced at times to interrupt his reading, so loud were the beatings of his heart due to the extreme pleasure he had in doing so". Those who never put down a book of erudition, science or philosophy, to catch their breath, so to speak, and recover from the strong emotion they experience, certainly ignore of of the most exquisite pleasures of intellectual life.
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That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.
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This king Sesostris divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
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Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.
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I do feel quite strongly about this that probably one of the things that unfortunately this age now to get a Nobel Prize is to really use part of it to help the young people get excited about science.
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Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.
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The social science fear the radical impulse in literary studies, and over the decades, we in the humanities have trivialized the social sciences into their rational expectation straitjackets, not recognizing that, whatever the state of the social sciences in our own institution, strong tendencies toward acknowledging the silent but central role of the humanities in the area studies paradigm are now around.
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I'm a technology person, but I'm not a science person.
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When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.
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Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
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The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history.
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Oh, I assure you, science is anything but boring.
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Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
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I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.
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Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
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We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives — a love of science, engineering, and math, so that they will want to take advanced scientific courses and thereby help meet the needs of our times.
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... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.
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Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
