Quotes about Science

The way evolution has always worked, a "secular" process in which life's most sacred secret is embedded.

What can be explained can also be predicted, if one knows the initial events and the laws covering their succession.

Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis.

Men of science spend much time and effort in the attempt to disentangle words from their metaphorical and traditional associations;

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalise false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

If I want to understand the laws of physics I have to first believe what I read about physics. I have to have faith in what I read.