642 quotes found
“The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.”
“The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of deducing by pure reasoning from speculative as...”
“While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.”
“Our true mentor in life is science.”
“Something else gets under your skin, keeps you working days and nights at the sacrifice of your sleeping and eating and attention to your family and friends, something beyond the love of puzzle sol...”
“Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.”
“Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in ...”
“May God us keepFrom Single vision and Newton's sleep.”
“Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one.”
“Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.”
“[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.”
“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worse than ignorant, they are deluded to the poi...”
“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.”
“Science is the key to our future, and if you dont believe in science, then youre holding everybody back. And its fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you dont beli...”
“But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.”
“It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the fr...”
“Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.”
“You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of ...”
“Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible ex...”
“Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.”
