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- Nov 07, 2020
Science Quotes
Science taken seriously, and occasionally not.
Most of these quotes come from people genuinely engaged with science, recalling museum trips that sparked early curiosity and admiring mathematics for tackling problems that actually have solutions. For quotes on scientific humor specifically, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
- Blunder
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
- Biology
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020