Quotes about Science

He wants it both ways—the language and credibility of science, but without being bound by its method and rules.

The unprecedented powers that science now makes available must be accompanied by unprecedented levels of ethical focus and concern by the scientific community—as well as the sort broadly based public education into the importance of science and democracy.

Scientists often say My position is mistaken. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

We still have not yet fully understood electrons and nuclei; for scientists, a speck of dust is very exciting. A particle of dust is a marvel.

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.

Following Rice, I went to Caltech for a Ph.D in physics, without any strong idea of what I wanted to do for a thesis topic.

Scientists are not like other people, sir. We cannot slam our portals. We have to follow evidence where it leads, even if no one likes that place. Even if it suggests that all we have ever believed might be mistaken.

That is so. Science directs us to study our maker's creation, but his thoughts on its purpose are only his to reveal.

What we are after is first noticing and then participating in the way the large world of the Bible absorbs the much smaller world of our science and economics and politics that provides the so-called worldview in which we are used to working out our daily concerns.