Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
Will DurantTags: science philosophy
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?
Angela CarterTags: science reason superstition bicycle
Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.
Michael CrichtonTags: science
You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
Michael CrichtonTags: science
But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system before it, science is starting not to fit the world any more. Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to build it. Science can make pesticide, but cannot tell us not to use it. And our world starts to seem polluted in fundamental ways---air, and water, and land---because of ungovernable science.
Michael CrichtonTags: science
When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.
Farkas BolyaiTags: science politics fate thought mathematics
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.
Richard DawkinsTags: science wonder awe beauty-in-nature
...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice... I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.
Charles DarwinTags: science biology profound evolution tolerance misery design isaac-newton newton evidence beneficence argument-from-design omnipotent
Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.
Michael CrichtonMr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you.
[First intelligible words spoken over the telephone]
Tags: science invention telephone
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