science

"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do."

"In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not..."

"He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing ."

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

"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?"

"Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men."

"Big whirls have little whirls,That feed on their velocity;And little whirls have lesser whirls,And so on to viscosity."

"Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep."

"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

"It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)"

"Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry."

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."

"Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!"If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept."

"Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to choose our own path in life."

"When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond."

"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change."

"Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say."

"I think we have different value systems."—Arthur"Well mine's better."—Ford"

"The easiest way to do anything is properly."