It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
Science is organized knowledge.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.
Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn’t got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That’s why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
