Quotes on “science”

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.