Atomic Science Quotes

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk. ~ Aristotle.

Our focus should be on developmental dimensions of atomic science with a special outreach to India's youth. ~ Narendra Modi

They were two human primates carrying another primate. One was the master of the earth, or at least believed himself to be, and the other was a nimble dweller in trees, a cousin of the master of the earth. Both species, the human and the monkey, were in the presence of another life form, which was older and more powerful than either of them, and was a dweller in blood. ~ Richard Preston

An algorithm must be seen to be believed. ~ Donald Ervin Knuth

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies. ~ Benjamin Franklin

I write thrillers for the same reason that people read them – it's escapism. ~ Ken McClure

Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception? ~ Honore De Balzac

Healing does not come through intense affirmation of divinity, or by simply pouring out love and the expression of a vague mysticism.It comes through mastering an exact science of contact, impression, of invocation plus an understanding of the subtle apparatus of the etheric vehicle. ~ Alice Bailey

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist. ~ Robert Lanza

You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world. ~ Thomas Sowell

It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly. ~ Theodor Billroth

Behavioral science is not for sissies. ~ Steven Pinker

In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology" ... such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Paul Ehrlich and others, have become our new delphic voices ... so influential has their branch of science become that our time might well be called the "Age of Ecology". ~ Rachel Carson

The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity:

The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory.
The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3 generations.
The population must be in the billions (±75 billions) for a statistical probability to have a psychohistorical validity. ~ Isaac Asimov

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism. ~ Alvin Plantinga

I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science. ~ Georg Cantor

Contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one has to distinguish two subvarieties. Type 2a physicists explain why they are not bothered. Their explanations tend either to miss the point entirely (like Born's to Einstein) or to contain physical assertions that can be shown to be false. Type 2b are not bothered and refuse to explain why. ~ David Mermin

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University. ~ Jeremy Irons

A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us. ~ Henri Poincare

I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. ~ Wallace Stevens

Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion. ~ Humphry Davy

Science does not permit exceptions. ~ Claude Bernard

An author has a gift that is leant to others. seek not to teach; - entertain! ~ Barry Woodham

Occam's razor, the philosophical basis of all science: assume the simplest natural cause. That answer might turn out not to be correct, but we should not resort to more complex reasoning unless it is shown to be necessary. ~ Nick Lane

God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of directing souls. You will suffer also in another way. Love will be your executioner. Let it do its work; it knows how. In this martyrdom we have need of extraordinary grace and strength; but God will bestow it. Without this divine help it would be impossible to bear up. ~ Paul Of The Cross

Science fiction is not formulaic. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Awesome date, Shade. You took me to murder highway."
He shrugged. "Predators. Prey. It's just the natural way of things. ~ Amanda Bouchet

Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

To make the peaks higher.
[His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.] ~ Wickliffe Rose

There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics ... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey. ~ John Allen Paulos

I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality. ~ Charles Kingsley

Religion deals with the heart (feelings/emotions) while science only focuses on the mind (increasing the intellectual) - However, we need something that can link the heart and the mind at the same time. ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo