8,157 Quotes About Science

In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned.

The work of good science is to try to peer beyond the "convenient" lines we draw over nature. To peer beyond intuition, where something wilder lives. To know that in every organism at which you gaze, there is complexity you will never comprehend.

Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.

It is only the vulgar people who will imagine religion to be the main enemy of science.

The main enemies of science are facts and common-sense.

Science is not meant to base its teachings on memorisation of facts, but exploration and self experiencing everything in life.

The heaven of the scientists lies in knowing how the Creator did everything.

Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.

You must become a rational being that is capable to balance everything, big and small acts in life.