A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
More than 140 different ‘exterior’ features of the universe, including the values of the constants that govern the laws of physics, must fit within narrowly specified ranges. This reality reasonably points to a Source with the capacity for intentionality, for deliberate, purposeful design and implementation—in other words, a Creator who transcends the well-crafted cosmos.
You don’t need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.
To study biochemistry is to decode the code of life, written in the language of atoms and elements.
The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds – to say nothing of stars or galaxies – humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal
I can’t tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.
Most children today grow up in an urban setting increasingly caught up in an electronic virtual world. Grant Linney’s life journey and essays are powerful reminders that nature is our home, the real world that provides us with all of our biological and spiritual needs and confers on us the sheer joy of our existence.
God promises neither good life nor good health but live your life the way it is planned by you and fate.
I don’t care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don’t have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.
People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can’t set them free. Not even the truth will set them free.
For thousands of years, ideas about relativity and the strange features of time have existed in literature.
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn’t have a design problem. People do.
Have you ever seen the veins in your arm or the way your lungs look when you breathe? The capillaries, all the little tubes—they look like the branches of a tree. You can see the parallels, the sameness that you see in the human form.
Regardless of one’s point of view, it’s quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard sciences. For instance, Darwinists will often compare their theory favorably to Einsteinian physics, claiming that Darwinism is just as well established as general relativity. Yet how many physicists, while arguing for the truth of Einsteinian physics, will claim that general relativity is as well established as Darwin’s theory? Zero.
The unraveling of our home planet is a mental disorder in which thoughs and feelings are so impaired they have no relationship to external reality. Wild is the opposite. It is when our thoughts, feelings, and actions are exquisitely sensity to our relationship with the living world and each other.
Facts and fiction both are dreams. Facts are what fiction dreams to be, while fiction is the dream that facts have conquered. And the beauty of it all is that, at any given moment, both dreams are alive, just in different shape and strength.
In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.
No matter how much science advances and creates robots, it cannot create a hair which ontains DNA.
We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.
Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.
Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death.
It’s time to chart a new path in forest management that’s guided by science, protects rural communities, benefits the environment, and actively manages our forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires.
The most important distinction, then, isn’t in separating artists from scientists and doctors, but in separating formulaic thinkers from creative ones, separating those who can tolerate uncertainty from those who cannot. Art, science, and medicine trade in doubt, and in its remedy – improvisation.
There appears to be no end to the evidence of fine-tuning and design coming from scientific discovery.
The nervous system dictates what that soul attracts into her life. If your neurons are destroyed, you won’t know where you are, what you want or where you want to go.
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions.
Natural selection doesn’t plan for the future, it only works in the present, to adapt organisms to their immediate circumstances.
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
We get distracted, have bad days, and grow sleepy; a working dog does, too. The dogs are being only human here.
No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
This is magic we’re talking about. It’s supposed to go places science can’t, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word ‘understanding.
If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there’s nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?
Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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.
We as a humankind will always be only energy to humankind. If we look at history we create/ develop our humanity or society by ourself and destroy it by ourself no other form of life interrupt us, but we are so brainwashed sometimes that we do that thing which make us animal.
Si el universo fuese un vestido,¿cuál te pondrías esta noche?
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.
My work is mostly about longing, human relationships, science and children – and a little bit about ghosts and reincarnation.
Plato was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it—against reason—as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience…
What is genuinely awe-inspiring is the realization that, at the molecular level, we are all composed of the same fundamental materials. We share a profound connection, an inherent oneness that transcends the boundaries of individuality. From the grandest galaxies to the tiniest atoms, we are all manifestations of the same energy sourcewoven together in the intricate fabric of existence.
Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.
Superstition is not divinity, any more than phrenology is brain science. Conspiracy is not enlightenment, any more than astrology is astrophysics.