We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'
I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.
The idea that people are nutritionally deprived because they don't eat grain has no scientific basis.
Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.
Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.
There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.
I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
