Science Quotes (2773 Quotes)




    She's been a great mentor to me. She's always looking for new things to do with her students. She spends a lot of her spare time reading about her subject area, researching. She's really turned on my passion for science.

    HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments --a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling --tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility --these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion --4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, Delectatio Demonorum (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration.

    Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.





    I confess that there is nothing to teach no religion, no science, no body of information which will lead your mind back to the Tao. Today I speak in this fashion, tomorrow in another, but always the Integral Way is beyond words and beyond mind.




    It's a great age to get the kids interested in science. Children love hands-on science. They're eager to learn and see how the world works. I know that we're thrilled to be a part of this.


    A great number of multiple sclerosis sufferers have experimented, sometimes illegally, with herbal marijuana in the past. We are confident that many patients will prefer a pharmaceutical or a scientific solution to the problem rather than crude herbal marijuana.

    From this experience the students have become more interested in life science, and now have an intimate involvement with vegetables. Some kids are out selling the vegetables they could end up building a career through sustainable foods. From working together, these kids learn respect and tolerance for other cultures.


    Opponents on both sides want the debate to be about science, ... mainly because of the apparent legitimacy science carries as compared to debating actual values, which these debates are about anyway.






    This is a victory for sound science, the killer whales, and the people of the Pacific Northwest. However, if Congress continues on its path to gut the Endangered Species Act, the best tools available to protect the killer whale will be ripped right out of the hands of the scientists and resource managers in the Pacific Northwest.

    The bottom line is that the 'ghost' biological opinion involves a plan that is much more in line with the science than the draft biological plan that is out on the streets.

    This is exactly the point we were trying to make. What's the rush Just give her a chance. Medical science is not that certain. We would hope the whole process will slow down, and everyone will step back and end the compulsion to end her life.

    You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.

    This is something I've been talking about for a long time. We've known it almost intuitively. It's been part of my regular slide show. So it's gratifying to see the scientific data supporting it.

    By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true.

    The academy will focus on reading, math, language arts, science and cutting-edge technology. Special attention will be afforded to critical thinking, problem-solving and employment skills.


    The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

    The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

    The company has prototypes running right now that are killing things. The basic science is done. A lot of the scientists developing this were physicists who were doing military-directed physics in Russia and have moved on to more peaceful programs in the United States.

    Scientists are looking at potential long-term negative effects of having been infected, maybe not even being really sick -- maybe having a mild headache and other sorts of things -- but still having some minor neurological problems for extended periods of time. As it's better studied, it seems there're more reports of that sort of thing out there.



    In the 1980s, life expectancy was increasing and the best data that we had suggested that for every increased year of life expectancy, a greater fraction was disabled life expectancy. That led to a pessimistic perception that what we would see was a piling up of chronic illness and related disability, that medical science could extend life but it couldn't prevent disability or cure it.

    Unfortunately, this decision once again demonstrates that private interests of a group of oil industry officials in our country have more weight than the law, opinions of scientists and Russian citizens, and than the future of the world's most unique freshwater lake.

    Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe a spirit vastly superior to that of man.... In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.

    Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a fact, ... Evolution is a fact in the same sense that it's a fact that the Earth is round and not flat, that the Earth goes round the Sun. Both those are also theories, but they're theories that have never been disproved and never will be disproved.


    Scientists want full proof under laboratory conditions. And the answer is very simple When I'm put under pressure, I can't perform. Even the phenomenon I'm most known for. When I'm on stage, I'm not under pressure and it happens. In other important places, it happens. But in a laboratory where I really want it to happen, it's very hard for me.

    People need to be a little more lenient with him. There is a lot being thrown at him. There's no fear, which is good, and he's doing a nice job with the analysis. We're trying to work in the play-by-play, and people might think it's easy, but it's not. It's not molecular science, either, but it's not easy. And he's getting the pacing. It's almost a poetic measure of speech. You get the rhythm, and people get into the rhythm with you. I'll be very surprised if he isn't doing two innings of play-by-play by the end of the season.

    The RI has a prestigious history 14 of its resident scientists have received Nobel prizes. Yet its buildings in Albemarle Street, London, have gradually evolved into a complex, inaccessible warren. The scientists, the admin and the public activities have become mixed up, ... And things like modern disabled access tend to be difficult for us.

    Although Singapore has a relatively limited pool of scientists as compared to the U.K., it has maximized those people by bringing them together. It's a vibrant atmosphere and very enjoyable to work. I don't feel under any sort of pressure to move.



    I don't think Boston Scientific could have gotten its offer to 80 a share without Abbott. I don't think they could be there at all without what has in effect become, 'The Bank of Abbott.




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