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Science Quotes
"I would expect a significant development and elaboration of language in only a few generations if all the chimps unable to communicate were to die or fail to reproduce. Basic English corresponds to about 1,000 words. Chimpanzees are already accomplished in vocabularies exceeding 10 percent of that number."
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"The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee."
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"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."
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"I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another."
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"Lashley also reported no apparent change in the general behavior of a rat when significant fractions-say 10 percent-of its brain were removed. But no one asked the rat of its opinion."
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"No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science."
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"While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why."
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"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."
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"The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will."
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"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant."
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"Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic."
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"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression."
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"The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science."
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"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought."
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"In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yields valid data is a valid test."
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"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."
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"There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed."
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"Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions."
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"The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true."
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"They are distinct enough that our crude instruments can pick up the differences, yet both are healthy instances of that staggeringly improbable, exquisitely engineered system we call a human being."
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"In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology."
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"Behavioral science is not for sissies."
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"Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed."
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"Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts."
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"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes."
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"Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce."
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"My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope."
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"The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it."
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"All this will happen because people have neglected the basic lessons of Science, they have gone in for politics and religion and wars instead, and sought out passionate excuses for killing one another. Science on the other hand is dispassionate and without bias, it is the only universal language. The language is numbers. When at last we are up to our ears in death and garbage, we will look to Science to clean up our mess."
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"The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers."
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