Science Quotes

Our brains are obviously capable of astoundingly fast and complex calculations that happen subconsciously. We can't explain them because most of the time we hardly even realize they're happening.

wen thectaste of my own medicine is given to me results into silent treatment, its not bitter therefore i enjoy the medicine i gave you too.

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...

She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it. Who cares if she can kiss? She can see through the clouds.

Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest.

My body was a buzzing antenna into which radio waves flooded from the entire cosmos. I was the living switchboard of the universe. My skull was a magnetized globe.

He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional big I.B.M. computer be brought onto the line.

You know that song, 'Woodstock.' It says 'We are stardust.' And we are. We come from stardust. Everything on earth is just ashes.

One may characterize physics as the doctrine of the repeatable, be it a succession in time or the co-existence in space. The validity of physical theorems is founded on this repeatability.

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).

In a very real way, then, materials are a reflection of who we are, a multi-scale expression of our human need and desires.

We will be advancing beyond just even odds.” – Janett Lee Wawrzyniak, Secret Terror in Wavelengths – Wave Links: Inter-Dimensional

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.

[Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should’ve just said no.(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)

Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to.

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that.

Everybody, professors and students and Proctors the same, knew that if the sign said 'do not walk on the grass', one hopped. Anybody who didn't had failed to understand what Oxford was.

Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments.

The expression e=mc2 is the ultimate statement in bounce per ounce.

.....I don't think infinity is a limit.

What you really believe about the source of great performance thus becomes the foundation of all you will ever achieve

It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be, ' restored the status quo.

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.

Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.

For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.

Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

Blood cannot be without dancing. There is no dancing without blood.

But it's the science of the stars!""She thinks it's Satanic. You gave her daughter a pentagram.""It's a natal chart, duh. You can't let ignorance trump science here, Miss Mary!

Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.

Loneliness struck again, its force doubled by how much she wished it was her family there instead. Then oddly enough, she met the boy's stare and that feeling came again, that this was her family.

I wondered whether water is a mirror for our darker emotions as much as it is an engine for our happiness. Water quiets all the noise, all the distractions, and connects you to your own thoughts.

Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they’re crazy** some are dumb, too, but that’s another story.

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.

Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist.

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

Like rain drops dripping on the floor like a thousand drumists beating those drums repeatedly, My blood runs through my veins ninety nine point nine metres per second when i think of you.

Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun.

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.

Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

Most businesses would profit greatly from just applying Change Management 101 well.

It is time to euthanize change management.

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Methodological naturalism is a “ground rule” of science today which requires scientists to seek explanations in the world around us based upon what we can observe, test, replicate, and verify