Science Quotes

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"Just as postnatal age begins at birth, prenatal age begins at fertilization."

O'Rahilly, human embryologist.

Keep your crap in one thread.

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"Science is facts; just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science."

Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) French mathematician.

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"Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion ?"

Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) English physicist.

"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics."

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)

"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religion than it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotism."

"I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

-Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist

"Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night"

-Isaac Asimov, Russian-born - American author

Not sure if he counts as a scientist, but he should. Many of his books are scientific nonfiction. For example, The Neutrino.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

"I don't think we're here for anything, we're just products of evolution. You can say 'Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose' but I'm anticipating a good lunch."

-Dr. James Watson, American biologist, (Discoverer of DNA.)

"Science is the record of dead religions."

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever. "

"Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian physician and pioneer psychoanalyst (1856-1939).

"That it is wrong for a man to say he is certain of the objective truth of a proposition unless he can provide evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what agnosticism asserts and in my opinion, is all that is essential to agnosticism."

-Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist

"Which is it: Is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?"

Friedrich Nietzsche

"I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying."

Burrhus Frederick "B. F." Skinner, American Psychologist (1904-1990).