[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true
Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium.
proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.
Even if it is a vice to read science fiction, those who cannot understand the very temptation to that vice will not be likely to tell us anything of value about it.
Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.
Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.
Harmony, and not peace, is the key element for all countries to unite together. In science we can not prove peace, but we can prove what harmony is!
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...
When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.
One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project.
work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science. { .}
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.
In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.
