science

"Wonder is the seed of knowledge"

"Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence."

"What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away."

"To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant—inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write."

"We can't help it. Life looks for life."

"As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we."

"Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards."

"When in doubt, C-4."

"And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude."

"So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations."

"rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying."

"We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast of the universe; which means endless."

"The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized."

"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute."

"Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name."

"I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way."

"We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world."

"Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives."

"So this is it,"said Arthur, "We are going to die.""Yes,"said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!"He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?"he cried."What? Where?"cried Arthur, twisting round."No, I was only fooling,"said Ford, "we are going to die after all."

"The slang for the rectum is "prison wallet"."