What is your FAVORITE SCIENTIFIC QUOTE?

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  • sailingheartships
    sailingheartships Posts: 68 Member
    One of my all time favorites by Dawkins:

    “The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”
    -Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
  • laynerich15
    laynerich15 Posts: 1,918 Member
    “To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries”
    -Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

    Oh I like you
  • mmd575
    mmd575 Posts: 88 Member
    One of my favorites is Occam's Razor. Many people paraphrase it differently but here it is "when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better."
  • The_Aly_Wei
    The_Aly_Wei Posts: 844 Member
    “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
    --Sagan
  • tincanonastring
    tincanonastring Posts: 3,944 Member
    Guys...guys...seriously, guys. This thread has been just so awesome. So many awesome quotes AND a truly withering Bill Nye stare (from an amazing smackdown of Ken Hamm, too). Truly, I am blessed!
  • sailingheartships
    sailingheartships Posts: 68 Member
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens

    CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP.
  • QuantumZ
    QuantumZ Posts: 4 Member
    I have far too many to quote, however this one sticks with me and is also from a man that deserves far more credit than he has received. I encourage anyone interested in science to read his memoirs or even do a quick Google search on him.

    "The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way."

    Nikola Tesla
  • s_pekz
    s_pekz Posts: 340 Member
    Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

    Bill Nye

    Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

    Bill Nye
    I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.

    Bill Nye

    and finally

    If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

    Bill Nye
  • laynerich15
    laynerich15 Posts: 1,918 Member
    This thread is totally restoring my hope in humanity.
  • sailingheartships
    sailingheartships Posts: 68 Member
    Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

    Bill Nye

    Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

    Bill Nye
    I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.

    Bill Nye

    and finally

    If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.

    Bill Nye

    I love Bill Nye so much. He make-a me soooo happy.
  • tincanonastring
    tincanonastring Posts: 3,944 Member
    I have far too many to quote, however this one sticks with me and is also from a man that deserves far more credit than he has received. I encourage anyone interested in science to read his memoirs or even do a quick Google search on him.

    "The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way."

    Nikola Tesla

    Damn right! This thread is embarrassingly Tesla-less.

    "The little engine labors and grows, performs more and more involved operations, becomes sensitive to ever subtler influences and now there manifests itself in the fully developed being — Man — a desire mysterious, inscrutable and irresistible: to imitate nature, to create, to work himself the wonders he perceives. Inspired to this task he searches, discovers and invents, designs and constructs, and covers with monuments of beauty, grandeur and awe, the star of his birth."
    - Nikola Tesla, Man's Greatest Achievement
  • laynerich15
    laynerich15 Posts: 1,918 Member
    Tesla was the man
  • freddi11e
    freddi11e Posts: 317 Member
    FUKC YOU SCIENCE!

    -21 JUMP ST.
    -CHANNING TATUM
  • Joannah700
    Joannah700 Posts: 2,665 Member
    Just a few that I like.


    “Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

    AND

    “Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus:

    Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man.
    Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore-
    Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second.

    This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.”
    ― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
  • s_pekz
    s_pekz Posts: 340 Member
    ANd now for something completely different:


    On the topic of the ocean:

    "its a big blue watery road"

    .
  • tincanonastring
    tincanonastring Posts: 3,944 Member
    I'm logging off for the rest of the day (probably), but I leave with this:

    "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    - Douglas Adams
  • fernandesg
    fernandesg Posts: 54 Member
    "When science fails to find an explanation for a phenomenon, superstition and quackery rush in to fill the void."
    -Dr. Joe Scwarcz

    For those that haven't heard of him, he's a chem professor at McGill University in Canada. Like Bill Nye, he debunks myths and misconceptions. His books are freakin' hilarious. Many of the myths he addresses have to do with nutrition and food safety (and since I'm in the food safety business that's prob why I love him so!) Check out his books and his blog:
    http://blogs.mcgill.ca/oss/tag/joe-schwarcz/
  • Smirnoff65
    Smirnoff65 Posts: 1,060 Member
    Vodka cures all ills Albert Einstein

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  • sbarella
    sbarella Posts: 713 Member
    “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens

    CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP.

    This quote is commonly ascribed to Euclid, but I think the actual author is unknown. (just a fun fact, not a criticism. I only know because it's one of my favourite quotes and I used it in a math essay :wink: )
  • RET68
    RET68 Posts: 88
    I'm logging off for the rest of the day (probably), but I leave with this:

    "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
    - Douglas Adams
    Never be without your towel. :tongue:
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    One of my favorites. It's just so true:

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  • ObtainingBalance
    ObtainingBalance Posts: 1,446 Member
    Here are only a couple of my favorites, sorry they are so long....hahah.

    “Think of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all you really were there at the time, weren’t you? How else could you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren’t there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place …. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made. If that does not make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important.”
    – Richard Dawkins

    "What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way." -Bertrand Russell

    "There is no heaven for broken down computers." -Stephen Hawking


    Love these quotes!

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