Quotes about science

Imagine how many women could excel in science if not for the pernicious myth that science and math are a man's game. Likewise, fitness isn't defined by the Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the world.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Innovation is the art at the eyes of artist the science at the mind of scientist and the bridge between the art and science.

To find the universal elements enough to find the air and the water exhilarating to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

Lo que sabemos es una gota de agua lo que ignoramos es un océano.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful they are found because it was possible to find them.

There are two kinds of truth The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality it is a profound source of spirituality.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Let's take back real science in the name of our Lord. Let us love our God with all our mind by fully embracing the incredible mental faculties with which we have been blessed. Indulge your God-given curiosity and discover the nuts and bolts of the universe don't be ashamed of how He has created us and the rest of creation. Today's Christianity is known for what it is against. What if it was known for what it was for?

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

It is the public that is illiterate in science and math, a lazy press, and environmental advocacy groups that manufacture fear for misconceptions about energy.

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation he is unworthy even of man.

You need something more than just the scientific method to explain the world in which we live. Beware of false dichotomies (either/or situations) that proponents of scientism assume. You should never have to choose whether or not you believe in either a plane’s engine or gravity. You can have both. You shouldn’t have to accept the existence of Steve Jobs or the iPhone nor should you have to decide whether you believe in God or science. Those who insist that scientific discoveries disprove God ar

But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable fact does not.

Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe that was almost an article of faith among scientists.

The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds the stagnant air reeked of insecticide.

How were they to square the tremendous wealth they accrued with their image of themselves as frugal and virtuous? Easy: just argue that commerce was itself virtuous. To be rich in corrupt old Europe must be a sign of droneishness but to be rich in fresh young American was the fruit of hard work. The beehive provided Americans with the ideal image for their religion of work.

Dance fotografers/videografers (ph=f) capture a moment in movement while dancers get birth of their artscience.

The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known - that human life begins at the moment of conception and, therefore, is entitled to legal protection from that point forward.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

My dad was a composer and a musician, but he never finished high school. His formal education was rather minimal from the standards of today's college graduates and Ph.D.'s, but he had a deep interest in questions of science and questions of the universe.

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad it is the way they are used that determines their value.

Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.

It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.

No one will protect what they don't care about and no one will care about what they have never experiened

There is no science without spirituality spirituality has no meaning without science.

Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.

Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new it alone can give us certainty.

Religion was (is) always steps ahead of science because religion lies and science can’t.

Science can neither prove nor disprove Scripture it can hope only to begin to understand it.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything it can even lead to vision itself.

Evolution is a religion it is not science!

The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It has long since ceased to be a theory it is a law of Nature as universal in living things as is the law of gravitation in material things and in the motions of the heavenly spheres.

What I should have said is that he thinks that there is a conflict between evolutionary biology and theism. Dennett thinks that evolutionary theory shows that it is irrational to believe that God exists he thinks that the theory has this consequence because he thinks that the Design Argument was the only remotely plausible argument for God’s existence and evolutionary theory destroyed that argument.

We must not wait for favours from Nature our task is to wrest them from her.

It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.

It's true life really is generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.

To the question of whether sharing 96% of our genetic make-up with chimps makes us 96 percent chimp we also share about 50% of our DNA with bananas - that does not make us half bananas!

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history it describes the theatre of events.

Don't blame a person for the wrongdoings Both He and You are Homo-sapiens.Don't greet a person for the rightdoings Try to be a Homo-sapien.

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. Consciousness is not a complex phenomenon it is what consciousness is _about_ that is complex. It is presumably this fact that is the reason many scientists over the decades have tended to perceive information as something involving order and organization. Because consciousness is about an experience of order and organization. Because consciousness is a state that does not process much information - consciously. Consciousness

You can always try another approach even change your subject when a scientific strategy or experiment fails.

The faculty of art is to change events the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art they are predicted by science.

The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation.

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

Television hols up a mirror to the true nature of family life today. For the first time people see themselves reflected and refracted within its curved glass screen: helping them to define who the are and how they should behave. The introduction of the TV dinner and the TV tray means that families can now watch themselves while they eat. Behavior patterns start to undergo a radical alteration even as they are being affirmed a rescheduling of life in the suburban living room has taken place.

The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science he attempts to frame a comprehensive and coherent framework of ideas within which the partial results of science may become more intelligible.

One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.

You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there's nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds. And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real l

The entire history of mankind is problem solving, or science fiction swallowing ideas, digesting them, and excreting formulas for survival. You can't have one without the other. No fantasy, no reality. No studies concerning loss, no gain. No imagination, no will. No impossible dreams: No possible solutions.

A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known.

Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I’d be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

All life is a rhythm,” she said as I sat up. “All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before liferesumes.

You'll notice that pain isn't solid or constant but rather a series of sensations, sometimes hard, sometimes light, and even sometimes gone altogether

I don't think she can see her husband very often, for he teaches the university students during the day, and works at the telescope at night. I wonder if she hopes for cloudy nights and then feels guilty.

Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.

The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science. If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

The Metaphoton is a web of energy fields or complexes - having three hierarchical complexes called the light complex, mind complex and spirit complex.

The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.

By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as that meter sticks shorten when they move or that simultaneous position and momentum have no meaning, but in the insight that we had not been using our minds properly and that it is important to find out how to do so.

If we recognize the power of entheogenic substances to open us to the universal truth and full dimension of human experience, and if we accept the role of the shaman as hierophant and psychopomp into this realm, as enacted for example by the Huichol mara'akame, we have to conclude that today in Western society we are deprived of two key resources for complete human growth. Young people, in their hunger for meaning, will still gravitate toward entheogens. The more experienced among us may try to

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

The mind is matter in and of itself, but I don't mind, and it doesn't matter.

We do not perceive what is "out there," rather we perceive what is "in here." Our senses can only inform us of their own status. They can inform us of the electrical status of neurons or the physical or the chemical status of the receptors. The outside world is never taken into our consciousness. The outside world is rather our own creation, psychologically synthesized from the mass of sensations that envelope us. In many respects, the ultimate question that perception must ask was stated by Joh

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.

.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them

Neuron is to Consciousness, what D.N.A. is to Life. Thus, Biology of Mind is to the twenty-first century, what Biology of Life was to the twentieth century.

There was no conflict between science and religion ever. The conflicts were actually between two different systems of human understanding – one was science, which was based on rigorous observations and examinations, and the other was fundamentalism, that’s based on undisputed belief on the scriptures.

Throughout the lifetime, the entire neurobiology of a human being goes through relentless perplexing transformations. These sexually dimorphic neurobiological changes create a person’s personality. These unique makeovers of the male and female biology hold the key to a sustainable romantic relationship.

Science without Philosophy leads to chaos. Philosophy without Science leads to nowhere. Only together they can construct a better world.

Memorizing facts and then regurgitating them into carefully crafted words is not science people. It’s intellectual bulimia. Real science happens when we explore what we don’t know. The first law of understanding the human brain and the mind within, is to be an explorer.

More importantly, it is difficult to study minds because we are mental beings. We have our own minds to maintain and protect, and may not wish to discover facts that force us to change, or make us question our own being in the world, or conflict with our sense of right and wrong. We have not discussed belief systems known as religions to any extent in this book. However, particularly threatening are facts that run counter to ourreligious beliefs, especially if those beliefs are strongly held. Fu

Your brain processes a thought while your mind creates and cultivates not only your thoughts, but also the knowledge and experiences you gain.

While humans have the propensity to develop a suite of prosocial behaviors, they are also capable of developing antisocial behavior, engaging in substance abuse, experiencing depression, and bearing children at an early age...Young people who develop aggressive behavior tendencies are likely to develop problems with tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; to fail academically; to have children at an early age;and to raise children likely to have the same problems.

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.

Just as we have created a society in which it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette in the Kennedy Center lobby, we can create a society where it is unthinkable that a child suffers abuse, fails in school, becomes delinquent, or faces teasing and bullying. We could have a society in which diverse people and organizations work together to ensure that families, schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods are nurturing and that our capitalistic system functions to benefit everyone.