Exploring Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

The main objection to the 'scientistic' claim that physics describes the world as it is in itself is that you 'can't weed out' the…

— David E. Cooper

Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth,…

— Paul Davies

As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history…

— W. H. Auden

We are persons whose bodies can be objectively studied according to the impersonal laws of physics but whose minds are subjectively experienced in ways…

— B. Alan Wallace

According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of nature, and…

— Gary Zukav

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to…

— Oliver Sacks

It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics…

— Jacques Barzun

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones…

— H. L. Mencken