Science Quotes

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e.g., Scientists are smart; smart people do not make mistakes; therefore, scientists do not make mistakes).

Science is most significant as one of the greatest spiritual adventures that man has yet known.

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .

One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.

It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.

In the 20th century philosophy of time for a great many theorists became part of science because it was time as is studied in physics that became the object of philosophical speculation. That’s very different from the way time has normally been understood.