“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.”
Science is the long, slow process of replacing "I believe" with "I know." These quotes explore discovery, curiosity, the scientific method, and the awe that comes from understanding even a small piece of how the universe actually works.
“This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.”
“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.”
“Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.”
“HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.”
“Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.”
“I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.”
“Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.”
“A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.”
“Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.”
“Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.”
“Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.”
“And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.”
“I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.”
“For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.”
“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.”
“I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.”