Science Quotes
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"Science reveals hidden truths."Cormac McCarthy
"Science provides explanations, but art provides meaning; we need both to understand ourselves."Joyce Carol Oates
"We are made of chemicals, but so are stars and flowers."Margaret Atwood
"Science reveals the mysteries that magic merely conceals"Robertson Davies
"Science is just the latest religion. It has replaced faith with facts."Cormac McCarthy
"Science reveals the mechanisms of existence but not its meaning."Joyce Carol Oates
"The so-called 'problem of consciousness' is actually insoluble."David Foster Wallace
"The so-called 'beauty' of mathematics is really just the elegance of compression."David Foster Wallace
"Science explains how things work. Philosophy explains why they matter."Cormac McCarthy
"In the beginning, all was formless, and the mind creates form from chaos."Cormac McCarthy
"Science is the pursuit of truth through evidence."Joseph Heller
"Science tells us how things work, but not why they matter."Saul Bellow
"Science explains how; wisdom explains why."Joseph Heller
"Science is the tool by which we impose our understanding on a chaotic world."Norman Mailer
"We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."Kurt Vonnegut
"I have been overstating the scientific accomplishments of the 20th century."Kurt Vonnegut
"Human consciousness is just not equipped to visualize decaying atoms in a vacant lot."William S. Burroughs
"The human larynx is an evolved organ."William S. Burroughs
"The human soul is not to be cut into little pieces by microscopes."Saul Bellow
"Science explains how, but never truly answers why."Joseph Heller
"The body is a very intelligent thing."Philip Roth
"We murder to dissect."Norman Mailer
"Science without poetry is meaningless"Allen Ginsberg
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."Kurt Vonnegut
"Bad chemicals are the cause of abominable behavior."Kurt Vonnegut
"Science is poetry written in equations."Joseph Heller
"The brain is a commodity."William S. Burroughs
"Science without conscience is the most destructive force known to man."Norman Mailer
"Science answers how; wisdom answers why."Norman Mailer
"To know the world, one must construct it"Allen Ginsberg