Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in all species that exist today? Chance, one might say, produced an innumerable multitude of individuals; a small number turned out to be constructed in such fashion that the parts of the animal could satisfy its needs; in another, infinitely greater number, there was neither suitability nor order: all of the later have perished; animals without a mouth could not live, others lacking organs for reproduction could not perpetuate themselves: the only ones to have remained are those in which were found order and suitability; and these species, which we see today, are only the smallest part of what blind fate produced.
Pierre-Louis Moreau de MaupertuisTags: science life existence purpose biology nature wonder chance evolution survival innovation natural-selection survival-of-the-fittest blind incredible struggle-for-life
As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.
Isidor Isaac RabiTags: science art weakness feeling normal
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.
Enrico FermiTags: wisdom science knowledge choice world hope futility scientists statesmen prevention atomic-power splitting-the-atom
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.
Isidor Isaac RabiTags: science love existence knowledge morality world humanity expression admiration understanding meaning culture aim nobel-laureate dimension esthetics
We must also teach science not as the bare body of fact, but more as human endeavor in its historic context—in the context of the effects of scientific thought on every kind of thought. We must teach it as an intellectual pursuit rather than as a body of tricks.
Isidor Isaac RabiTags: science tricks thought facts effect teach endeavor human-endeavor intellectual-pursuit scientific-thought
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.
Max BornTags: science politics experience knowledge men technology human interest relations
Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.
Theodosius DobzhanskyTags: science biology evolution survival natural-selection genes survival-of-the-fittest altruism gentleness human-evolution
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Theodosius DobzhanskyTags: science biology evolution sense evidence natural-selection
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.
Max BornTags: science causality progress thinking knowledge philosophy time understanding ideas philosophers space physics atoms matter quantum-theory illuminating theoretical-physics revolution-relativity
In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Charles DarwinTags: science biology history light psychology evolution research charles-darwin darwin natural-selection capacity important foundation mental-power origin human-evolution gradation origin-of-man
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