We have neither tentacles nor limestone exoskeletons, but are we really so different from coral?
Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?
We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity’s past nor dim its future.
In high school, I didn’t realize that science or engineering were male-dominated fields. When I got to college, and I was one of two girls in a 50-person class, that’s when I realized that this was a unique decision I had made as a girl to go into engineering.
Pets enrich our lives and those of our children. We admire the tiger not only for its fearful symmetry but as a symbol of freedom itself, so we offer it rather more freedom than we would think fit for the chicken. It is impossible, however, to avoid the issue that both the chicken and the tiger are living on our terms.
In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.
It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.
I’m not really smart, but I’m dedicated. I can be good at anything if I love it and dedicate myself. And I love history. I love science. I love music. I love golf. I love learning. I love life.
Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.
There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science and the second is art.
DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
There’s a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it’s an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.
Quantum physics, the study of the universe at its mostminute level, unveils a startlingly different picture fromwhat today’s hyper-materialist humans so glibly dub reality.
And yet—this fascination with the future has generated its own antithesis, particularly in the so-called affluent or developed societies. There is a growing disenchantment with progress (however this may be defined) and even a feeling that, in many directions, we have already gone too far.
A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.
Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.
It may be a shock to the ego, but you are not alone in your body, and your microbiota is right now making plans for your future. By manipulating your cravings and mood, it gains control over your behavior.
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
Writing endures beyond celestial bodies, serving as the conduit for history, the foundation of science, and the enhancer of wisdom.
Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile into a mammal or to convert a fish into an amphibian. Microevolution looks at adaptations that concern the survival of the fittest, not the arrival of the fittest… The origin of species — Darwin’s problem — remains unsolved.
My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.[From the will of GBS]
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can’t see the other. They don’t know they are connected.
Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.
Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question.
Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.
One could argue that the observer effect is the primary energetic dynamic of ‘reality’ itself.This effect showcases the eminently malleable nature of the LEGO pieces of our world—atoms—as material objects that appear to become so only through an act of creative focus. This may strain credulity, but at the fundamental level of energy, it’s just how ‘things’ are.
The chance formation of a single DNA protein was so great (It would take 10 to the 234th power in years) that such an event could not have occurred.
Philosophy, once called the queen of the sciences, and once called their handmaid, is perhaps better thought of as the womb, or the midwife, of the sciences.
If you bring electricity to a marginalized community with a simple solar power kit, it’s a far greater scientific achievement than the gargantuan glories of the LHC.
If Trump publicly commits to embrace science, stops threatening censorship of the Internet, rejects fake news and denounces hate against our diverse employees, only then it would make sense for tech leaders to visit Trump Tower.
Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.
The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men’s minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘How?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘Why?’
Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding…
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
The seeker after knowledge did not seek for himself; he was under a special Commandment: to deliver to all men whatever he might be privileged to learn.
One lesson is that to be second is not to be secondary or inferior; likewise, to be first is not to be originary or authoritative. Yet, as we shall see, disparaging opinions on adaptation as a secondary mode—belated and therefore derivative—persist. One aim of this book is to challenge that denigration.
The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events.
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.
I had begun to think that there might be something monumental here. A vague element of the mythical. The velocity of who we are. Every scrap of existence colliding inside the tubes: the weak force, the strong force, the theory of everything. And, of course, every inanity was whirling inside there too. All of it tumbling in unison along the sea floor.
Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.
Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!
Q: But what do you think that the Bible, itself, says? Don’t you know how it was arrived at?A: I never made a calculationQ: What do you think?A: I do not think about things I don’t think about.Q: Do you think about things you do think about?A: Well, sometimes.
As science advances, there seems to be less and less for God to do. It’s a big universe, of course, so He, She, or It, could be profitably employed in many places. But what has clearly been happening is that evolving before our eyes has been a God of the Gaps; that is, whatever it is we cannot explain lately is attributed to God. And then after a while, we explain it, and so that’s no longer God’s realm.
Darwin thought that heritable variation stems from the effects the conditions of life have on the organism, and from “use and disuse.”3 Discovering that this is what Darwin thought surprises some people, because they associate the idea of evolutionary change through use and disuse with the name of Lamarck.
Let’s be courageous in the matter of women. Let’s forget fear. Let’s adorn their minds with serious knowledge and science. Let’s teach chastity in a healthy, scientific way. Let’s give top priority to giving women honour and dignity.
It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method.
Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.
In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world…all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.
It is to these two discoveries by Bradley that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy. …. This double service assures to their discoverer the most distinguished place (after Hipparchus and Kepler) above the greatest astronomers of all ages and all countries.
Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.
The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.
There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.
There are no exact metaphors, not for quantum mechanics and not for anything else, because if they were exact, they wouldn’t be metaphors.
I don’t need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me trouble enough!
This is what is meant by the phenomenology of the science-making process: Self-observation always leads us to an existential point about the metaphysics of experience, and it is almost always a transforming moment. (p. 286)