Science Quotes

My love for Neo-Tokyo is a bulbous massof post-human organic circuitry.Cyperpunk is my mother tongue.My love is a man-machine interface gun.

50,000-63,000 individuals in the United States and 19,000-25,000 in the UK die prematurely from cancer annually due to insufficient vitamin D.

Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than you're likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!

In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher

Siddhartha Mukherjee

And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors?

Siddhartha Mukherjee

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

David Bentley Hart

Perception is the illusion that gives all matter mass," The Flight of the Eagle A.K. Luthienne

For seven centuries the existence of Grand Unification Theories and hyperstring post-quantum physics and Core-given understanding of the universe as self-contained and boundless, without Big Bang singularities or corresponding endpoints, had pretty much eliminated any role of God—primitively anthropomorphic or sophisticatedly post-Einsteinian—even as a caretaker or pre-Creation former of rules. The modern universe, as machine and man had come to understand it, needed no Creator; in fact, allowed no Creator. Its rules allowed very little tinkering and no major revisions. It had not begun and would not end, beyond cycles of expansion and contraction as regular and self-regulated as the seasons on Old Earth

I’ve always had a thing for men with large hadron colliders.

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.

Émilie Du Châtelet

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don't have the correct data. If you meet people in this unnamed movement and aren't optimistic, you haven't got a heart.

We need to consume less. A lot less. Less food, less energy, less stuff. Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile phone upgrades. Far fewer.Yet, every decade, global consumption continues to increase relentlessly.

You must not blame us scientists for the use which war technicians have put our discoveries.

Every creature is a living instruction that runs the algorithm of nature.

I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.

Evan Mariah Pettit

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

George Henry Lewes

Science is nothing but perception.

Plato

Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

Albert Einstein

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science and about the things that were known before science came.

A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

Alfred North Whitehead

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.

Buckminster Fuller

Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented among other things the crank the horse collar eyeglasses the flying buttress the stirrup the windmill the wheelbarrow printing firearms paper the canal lock the compass the rudder the mechanical clock the spinning wheel and the treadle.

Joseph and Frances Gies

The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.

The British Army Journal

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Sir Humphrey Davy

Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.

Wernher von Braun

Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

It is the theory which decided what can be observed.

Albert Einstein

Art is I science is we.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science and art belong to the whole world and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

Goethe

Science is simply common sense at its best - that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

Marshall McLuhan

Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for and is therefore right in postulating may be enveloped in a wider order on which she has no claim at all.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Albert Einstein

Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can do so much cannot decide what it ought to do.

Joseph Wood Krutch

It may be bizarre but in my opinion science offers a sure path to God and religion.

As both the Mercury and Apollo programs have shown our science and technology are so powerful that if an intense effort is made we can do almost anything we want in say ten years - provided we are not in conflict with the laws of nature.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

Research is to see what everybody has seen and to think what nobody else has thought.

Albert Szent-Györgyi

No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Paul R. Ehrlich

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems except the things in the world that just don't add up.

The World would be a safer place If someone had a plan Before exploring Outer Space To find the Inner Man.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right

Albert Einstein

There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.

Gregory Zilboorg

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

The perfect computer has been developed. You just feed in your problems and they never come out again.

Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

George Santayana

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