#science

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

"By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang."

"The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)"

"Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography."

"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."

"...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity,"one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution."

"Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it."

"Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves."

"'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'"

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

"There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA,"though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk,"given our level of ignorance."

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them"

"One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds."

"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."

"It tastes like water spiked with strange."

"Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science."

"Einstein said that if quantum mechanics were correct then the world would be crazy. Einstein was right - the world is crazy."

"And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread."

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death."

"The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat."