Science Limits Quotes

I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.

Darwin talks about evolution, but he doesn't say how it started. Maybe the sense of mystery will dissolve in the face of science, but I am not so sure. We are all described by the human genome, but it's getting people nowhere.

Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts.

One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.

The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which mystery travels, back and forth, unencumbered by anything so frail as man's knowledge.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer the shoreline where the known meets the unknown.

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

There are big questions science doesn't answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can't be a scientific answer to that because it's the answer that precedes science.

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.

There's a lot that's not explained about the universe. And psychic-ness is not stranger than that.

We can have fun speculating about why things are the way they are but don't look to science to provide any answers.

When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.

I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

You can only utter things proved by science. Do you realize that would shut down the entire climate change community? Because none of it is provable by science. Don't tell them that, but none of it is yet.