Quotes of: Natural-science Keyword

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

Where is Science Going?

I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.

Robert Winston

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Sally Ride

Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders.

How Nature Cures Comprising a New System of Hygiene; Also the Natural Food of Man

We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our b...

'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

Phillip E. Johnson

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.

The Nature of the Physical World

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

Phillip E. Johnson

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.

Edward Thorndike

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Michael Shermer

As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to cons...

Otto Wallach

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

David Hume

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Steven Pinker

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

Paul Nurse

It must be admitted that scientists today take little interest in philosophy of science.... It is not an indication that philosophical issues are no longer relevant. Rather, it is a consequence of the increasingly specialized nature of science, and o...

Samir Okasha

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent a...

Robert M. Sapolsky

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Rudy Rucker

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no r...

Joseph Campbell

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

Science & Human Values