Camille Paglia Quotes

Without science, everything is a miracle.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Science is about unravelling nature.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

Science isn't just about solving this or that puzzle. It's about understanding how the world works: the whole world from the vastness of the cosmos to the particularity of an individual human life. It's worth thinking about how all the different ways we have to talk about the world manage to fit together.

I'm a real nerd for science. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson and 'Cosmos' and all that.

Science offers us the possibility of understanding natural rhythms and events that must have seemed like the work of angry and unpredictable gods to our ancestors.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

Women study things in order to figure out how they're connected to other things. I don't know if it's controversial to say that, but that's what I've seen from doing science for a couple of decades.

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.