There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That's perfectly all right; they're the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process. To be accepted, new ideas must survive the most rigorous standards of evidence and scrutiny

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not