“Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.”
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“Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.”
“In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.”
“In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.”
“Experimentation is an active science.”
“Science does not permit exceptions.”
“The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.”
“Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.”
“It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.”
“Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.”
“Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.”
“Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.”
“Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.”
“While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.”
“As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.”
“You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.”
“Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.”
“Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.”
“Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.”
“I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the ultimate reality.”
“Fashion is more about feel than science.”
“In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.”
“Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.”
“The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.”