Science - Quotes
Advances in science are often delayed because the common wisdom holds that something is impossible.
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today - the age of science - science fiction is our mythology.
Science helps us avoid dogmatism: basing conclusions on authority rather than logic and evidence.
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.
People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.
Mathematics is not a deductive science - that`s a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don`t just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
Science is not a mechanism but a human progress, and not a set of findings but a search for them.
The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.
Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.
The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.
Data without generalizations are useless; facts without explanatory principles are meaningless. A "theory" is not just someone's opinion or a wild guess made by some scientist. A theory is a well-supported and well-tested generalization that explains a set of observations. Science without theory is useless.
Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.