Science Quotes

"It will be practically impossible to discriminate between the machine and the human being."

"It is not difficult to design with the modern computers the circuit which will make the whole machine oscillate."

"All the evidence we have suggests that it is the outermost brain, the brain that deals with the world, that is the newest."

"All the evidence we have suggests that it is the outermost layer of the brain that does most of our thinking."

"To be accepted, both as a physical fact and as a logical explanation, the concept of digital machine thinking must pass further tests."

"The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, water, and wildlife with dangerous and even lethal materials."

"As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life."

"Living things are not mere parts of a machine. They are living entities bound together by the invisible threads of nature."

"Pesticides have been so thoroughly distributed throughout the ecosystems that they occur virtually everywhere."

"If we are going to deal realistically and effectively with the insect problem, it must be done with full knowledge of the relevant facts."

"The aim of science should be to serve humanity, not to dominate it."

"Modern insecticides have so saturated our world that they occur in the most remote places."

"The purpose of science is understanding, not control."

"I used to be a teacher of mathematics, and I've always felt that mathematics is the underlying structure of thought."

"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose, and that's what makes astronomy so wonderful."

"I became an astronomer because I wanted to understand the fundamental nature of reality."

"Every observation, every data point, tells part of the story of creation."

"The study of galaxies is the study of the fundamental structure of existence itself."

"Dark matter may be invisible, but its effects are undeniably real and measurable."

"The study of dark matter is the study of the universe's greatest mystery."

"Every star we observe is a window into the history of the universe."

"The origin of life is not merely a problem for the biologist, but a problem for anyone who thinks about life itself."

"Consciousness is not unique to humans. It may be a property that emerges from complexity itself."

"Mitochondria tell us that life's story is fundamentally one of merger and integration."

"Symbiogenesis explains more about evolution than competition ever could."

"We are made of bacteria. Our cells once were bacteria. This is not metaphor; it's fact."

"Oxygen itself is a waste product of photosynthetic life, yet it made complex life possible."

"The cell is where the real story of evolution is written, not in the organism as a whole."

"The partnership between organisms is not romantic notion; it's biological fact."

"Science is simply the study of God's creation."