science

"The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts."

"Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them."

"A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points."

"And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.("To Science")"

"Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific"eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice"."

"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."

"Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behavior does."

"If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it."

"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."

"It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch."

"Science without conscience is the soul's perdition."

"The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind."

"The easiest way to do anything is properly."

"In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed."

"Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."

"Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected."

"To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge."

"All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!("The Jelly-Fish")"