Science Quotes - Page 4

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

We begin with the hypothesis that any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development.

To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.

I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution. The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large extent within their jurisdiction.

Let Nature be your teacher

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.

I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.

For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.