Science Quotes

"Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?" "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" "I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud" "The process of natural selection is smarter than you are." "The secret ingredient for success in science is the ability to ask good questions." "You cannot directly perceive sunlight; you can only perceive its reflections and refractions." "I'm against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world" "Religion teaches you to be satisfied with non-answers. Science is about the opposite" "Science replaces private prejudice with publicly verifiable evidence" "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that)" "We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here" "The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down" "Science is the poetry of reality." "It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism were really a theory of chance, it could not work." "Science gives us knowledge but only philosophy can give us wisdom"