Science Quotes

If the author is so interested in Science, why doesn't she take a course in it?

Peg Bracken

The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a neuron's inputs and its targets support vital cellular processes. Neurons unable to connect effectively with other neurons atrophy. Useless, an abandoned neuron will die.

Lisa Genova

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

William Kirby

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

Al Gore

The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right, thought you know that it probably will not be.

Douglas Adams

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard P. Feynman

Modern science is still trying to produce a tranquilizer more effective than a few kind words

Douglas Meador

DNA has memory!

Isaiah Washington

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

Richard Feynman

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

Lord Kelvin

If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.

Ingrid Newkirk

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

Philip Greenspun

Proof' is the hallmark of religion.

Bill Gaede

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

Thomas Kuhn

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are.

Tim Kreider

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

George Porter

[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.

Gary Taubes

The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

Owen Chamberlain