#science

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

"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional."

"You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into."

"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."

"I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill."

"You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy. This is a world populated by beings far more exotic than in any science fiction movie..."

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."

"Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists."

"The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them — the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status."

"Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry..."

"At the end of the universe you’ll find a door labeled “Do Not Enter.” No great mysteries are hidden there—it’s just a supplies closet."

"Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it."

"Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use."

"When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are."

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."

"Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie."

"Do not become someone else just because you are hurt. Be who you are & smile, it may solve, all problems you have got."

"If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?"

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

"What is it with science these days? Everyone is so quick to believe in it, in all these new scientific discoveries, new pills for this, new pills for that. Get thinner, grow hair, yada, yada, yada, but when it requires a little faith in something you all go crazy.' He shook his head, 'If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe."