Science Quotes

[home_teachin]

I'm up late and for some reason I have the urge to share some quotes about science. 

Feel free to add your own

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
    Adam Smith (1723-90) Scottish economist.

Science is not belief, but the will to find out. anon

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Charles Darwin

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.
Galileo Galilei

Science is simply common sense at its best.  ~Thomas Huxley

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again.  They really do it.  It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful.  But it happens every day.  I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.  ~Carl Sagan, 1987

[home_teachin]

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[liljp617]

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.  -- Dawkins

[jaidenavery]

ooh. i like the "science is simply at its best"
I think that's what it says.