The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: politics religion learning knowledge censorship science suppression Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no other species on the Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: science earth tools brains Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. —Michael Crichton More about this quote Tags: science money agreement being fooled Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia. —Charles Lindbergh More about this quote Tags: life accomplishment science wilderness trivia Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
War is bestowed like electroshock on the depressive nation: thousands of volts jolting the system, an artificial galvanizing, one effect of which is loss of memory. War comes . . . as absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to "feel good" about themselves, their country, is a measure of that failure. —Adrienne Rich More about this quote Tags: war politics imagination memory people failure science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it. —Bernard Bailey More about this quote Tags: science self-centeredness conceit surprise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The true definition of science is this: the study of the beauty of the world. —Simone Weil More about this quote Tags: beauty science world study Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it. —Pierre Gallois More about this quote Tags: science data computers tomfoolery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. —Thomas A. Edison More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields. —Peter Borden More about this quote Tags: perspective change science novelty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music. —Reggie Watts More about this quote Tags: science art football sports high school Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: humor science water Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. —Russell Baker More about this quote Tags: science work object lost Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without meaning to belittle the wonders of science, I do not think they can absolve mankind of suffering, desire, madness, and death. —Lewis H. Lapham More about this quote Tags: science death suffering desire madness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. —Stephen Jay Gould More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge certainty science arrogance centrality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email