8,157 Quotes About Science

My encounters with the Hawaiian spirits atop Mauna Kea indicate that there is another universe that is not understood by modern science.

Life for me is just a result of experiments being performed by far more developed creatures.

We are set irrevocably, I believe, on a path what will take us to the stars - unless in some monstrous capitulation to stupidity and greed, we destroy ourselves first.

[...] I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgement until the evidence is in.

Please, this isn't a Poe mystery; it hardly requires a C. Auguste Dupin level of detection. It took me a few seconds. Most people go around thinking that life is magical and mysterious, filled with all kinds of unknowns. Bullshit. Once you decide the universe is knowable, all kinds of answers become available to you.

Believing some facts depends on believing some facts.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

We can only know the world through the senses that evolution has passed down to us; that reality is therefore forever opaque to us.

Some of our beliefs will seem ridiculous in a hundred years’ time. Some already seemed so a thousand years ago.