What Is Science Quotes
Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals.
Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.
I’m alarmed that to think than modern science may be turning creativity into a medical disorder
Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.
The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century
The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.
Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.
Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.
All of science is largely formalized common sense.
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account.
All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves.
Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–Neville Goddard
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?
Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.
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.
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
When science discovers the center of the universe a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it.
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.