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Science Quotes
"If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors."
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"Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not."
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"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
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"In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology."
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"Behavioral science is not for sissies."
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"There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything."
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"We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible."
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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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"Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science."
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"Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer."
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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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"Science explained people, but could not understand them."
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"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
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"Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth."
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"With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts."
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"The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method."
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"If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident."
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"As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize."
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"Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science."
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"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."
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"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."
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"It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed."
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"Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination."
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"These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe."
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"No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study."
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"Stars ink your fingerswith a lexicon of flameblazing rare knowledge."
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"Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted."
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"In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology."
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"Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'."
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"The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general."
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"Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness."
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"It is the theory which decided what can be observed."
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"Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science."
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"The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable."
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"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."
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"There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton."
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"The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or the ethanol content of the galactic cloud W-3. The quantity of 200-proof alcohol in this single interstellar cloud was more than enough to maintain the present population of the Earth, if every adult were a dedicated alcoholic, for the age of the solar system. The tamada had appreciated the remark."
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"Smart radiation researchers use radiation resistance health techniques in order to offset the known biological harm of their toxic radiation exposures."
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