S Quotes
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“Science tells me God must exist.
My mind tells me I'll never understand God.
My heart tells me I'm not meant to.
[Vittoria Vetra]”
Source: Angels & Demons
“Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.”
Source: Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.”
Source: Story of Philosophy
“Science tells us much, but without an absolute communion, a thorough accord and responsive affinity between human soul and plant soul there never can be a thorough understanding of the nature of plants.”
Source: The Human Side of Plants
“Science tells us that love not only diminishes the experience of physical pain but can make us—and our beloveds—healthier.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Science tells us that the "grey zone" between life and death is a mysterious place. There is a singular point at which we are not one thing or another. Or rather we are both. Alive and dead. And in that moment between the two binaries, sometimes, just sometimes, we turn ourselves into a Schrödinger's cat who may not only be alive or dead but may be every quantum possibility that exists in line with the universal wave function, including the possibility where we are chatting in a communal kitchen in Longyearbyen at one in the morning...”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Science tells us the more intelligent a person is, the less conservative and more liberal they become. ... which doesn't say anything good about violent, hate-mongering conservatives.”
Source: All That Remains
“Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition
“Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition
“Science tells us what we have reason to believe. Not what we have a duty to believe. Not what experts, in their pontificating wisdom, instruct us to believe... No, science tells us what there is good reason to believe.”
“Science tells you love is just a chemical reaction in the brain,
Let me be your Bunsen burner baby, let me be your naked flame!”
“Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.”
“Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!”
“Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.”
Source: Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science
“Science, the agent that once promised to eradicate the supernatural, had, through the nuclear threat, resurrected it. Magic was not exactly alive, but it was surely undead.”
Source: The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!
“Science, they say, can tap the brain of man and alter his desires. But the Bible, which has withstood the ravages of time . . . says that we are possessed of a sinful, fallen nature which wars against us.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down”
“Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.”
“Science transcends the personal domain of beliefs. You can see the grace of Science in every direction of the human universe.”
“Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.”
“Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.”
“Science used to claim it understood the universe fairly well. Now it says that 95% of the universe is unknown to science. Anyone who scored 5% in a science exam would not be allowed to do science. Yet worshippers of scientism believe they are permitted to pontificate on the nature of reality despite being a 95% epic fail. They literally don’t know anything. Even their 5% of supposed knowledge is absurd since the remaining 95% is exceptionally unlikely to offer a defense of the 5%. Science – the Swiss Cheese System. It’s full of holes. It’s springing leaks everywhere. The rats are jumping off the sinking ship.”
Source: Extra Scientiam Nulla Salus: How Science Undermines Reason
“Science usually operates in sort of three modes, things that are well established, we know what we're talking about, more highly confident. There are competing explanations, we have a pretty good idea, but we're not sure. And then things are speculative.”
“Science values static patterns.”
Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“Science (vignan) means that which frees one just by ‘knowing’. Nothing needs to be done. Knowledge that keeps working on its own is called science.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment.”
“Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.”
“Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes.”
“Science was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
“Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.”
Source: Red Mars
“Science was meant to be hard. After all, what was science but a bunch of bored human beings trying to challenge themselves when faith became too easy”
Source: It Devours!
“Science was reason’s triumph, we had been so pridefully taught, the defeat of the Beast. But what happened when the Beast learned science?”
“Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.”
“Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.”
“Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown.”
“Science was the siren that lured him.”
Source: Meet the Earl at Midnight
“Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.”
Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld
“Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.”
“Science will always raise philosophical questions like, is any scientific theory or model correct? How do we know? Are unobserved things real? etc. and it seems to me of great importance that these questions are not just left to scientists, but that there are thinkers who make it their business to think as clearly and slowly about these questions as it is possible to. Great scientists do not always make the best philosophers.”
“Science will be completely separated from religion on the day that scientists will invent their own calendar(s).”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“Science’ will destroy Difference of opinion. Full blessed state of the self (Complete Samadhi) prevails through the ‘science’, continuous blessed state of the self. Such ‘science’ seldom arises in this world. Otherwise “science” is never there.”
Source: Life Without Conflict
“Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.”
“Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.”
“Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.”
“Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Science will win because it works.”
“Science will...produce the data..., but never the
full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we
shall need...most of all the brains of poets, [and]
also those of artists, musicians, philosophers,
historians, writers in general.”
“Science with belief acted the best.”
Source: The Man with Five Heads
“Science without accountability is no different from a conspiracy theory.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None