Learn Through Quotations

“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

“Where it is a duty to worship the Sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”

“Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.”

“Don't forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting micro-organisms.”

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”

“Chili represents your three stages of matter: solid, liquid, and eventually gas.”

“I have an opportunity to educate myself about issues for people in the arts and educate them in science.”

“Don't get smart alecksy With the galaxy Leave the atom alone.”

“We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”

“Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.”

“Science is showing us that there are neurological (brain) factors that contribute to self-control and willpower, along with learning and upbringing. And when these brain systems are functioning improperly or become damaged, normal levels of self-control and willpower are impossible.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.”