Science Quotes
We move through this world on paths laid down long before we are born.
One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'.
But in the cause of science men are expected to suffer.
See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.
Maybe if you had megaphones on your chest they'd listen to the words that came out of your lips
Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.
This was the missing link in Darwin's Logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.
Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.
Gene, protein, function, and fate were strung in a chain: one chemical alteration in one base pair in DNA was sufficient to "encode" a radical change in human fate.
Hoh, Boy!" Freddy snorted, slapping his palm to his forehead. "I hope you never donate your brain to science. It would set civilization back fifty years.
There are many things in science that were developed because it was possible rather than desirable. Humanity's curiosity will almost certainly be its downfall.
From an illustration in her "Animals of a Bygone Era": a Leptictidium, an extinct rabbit-like animal who left no descendants, says: "Too bad, because we were really cute.
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.
Perhaps you'll gave to kiss him again, if you're not sure. Gather more evidence. In the name of science.
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.
Everything is more whole in the end when you forgo destruction and instead repair, he reasoned. But some things can’t be repaired. His arm can’t be repaired. He will always be broken because of me.
If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100, 000 years of human history would be 4 minutes, and a 100 year life would be 0.2 seconds.
Aggression in bears can be and often is a stepping stone to friendship. Friendship and alliances frequently develop by repeated interactions, with initial aggression that lessens over time.
If the spirit of your imagination is limited, your journey of discovery will be very short.
An informed world is not only for today, but a legacy to shape a better world and future for tomorrow.
Missing this interview? It's not the end of the world. It is the beginning.
She laughed. 'See? You can do philosophy!' He rolled his eyes and shook his head. 'Don't insult me.
Religion enjoys astonishing privileges in our societies, privileges denied to almost any other special interest group one can think of-and certainly denied to individuals
The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.
Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand years?
Science is a long history of learning how not to fool ourselves.
Today it was commerce that Europe valued and it was the businessmen who, having exploited what the scientists and thechnologits had done for the world, now reaped the rewards.
At some point we have to give up and say that's just the way it is. Or, not give up and push on.
The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them
CONSIDER THIS When things do go wrong, ask yourself whether you could have prevented it by being unhappy.
If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures of reason, of order!
We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny