Biologist Quote by David Papineau

A certain kind of methodologically-minded philosopher of science is quick to read off metaphysical conclusions from features of scientific practice. Chemists don't derive their…

— David Papineau

“This book intends to make the case for explanation by reduction to physics and mechanical engineering, to this alternative realm of explanation: not to…

— Steven Vogel

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist…

— Henry Taube

“The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of atoms. This…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Present-day science, conventional medicine, and the mindset of 'better living through chemistry' have delivered their results, and they are less an excellent. Essentially, due…

— David Wolfe

The scientists are virtually screaming from the rooftops now. The debate is over! There's no longer any debate in the scientific community about this.…

— Al Gore

There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this…

— Ernst Boris Chain

It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.…

— Stephen Fry

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

— Donald Cram

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as…

— Michael Polanyi

It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist, I would hope society would be equally interested…

— Donna Strickland