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  • What is Science?

  • [Michael Shermer] Science is the best tool ever devised

  • For understanding how the world works

  • [Jacob Bronowski] Science is a very human form of knowledge

  • We are always at the brink of the known

  • [Carl Sagan] Science is a collaborative enterprise

  • Spanning the generations

  • We remember those who prepared the way

  • Seeing for them also

  • [Neil deGrasse Tyson] If you're scientifically literate,

  • The world looks very different to you

  • And that understanding empowers you

  • [Richard Dawkins] There's real poetry in the real world

  • Science is the poetry of reality

  • [Sagan] We can do science

  • And with it, we can improve our lives

  • [Dawkins] There's real poetry in the real world

  • Science is the poetry of reality

  • [Jill Tarter] The story of humans is the story of ideas

  • That shine light into dark corners

  • [Lawrence Krauss] Scientists love mysteries

  • They love not knowing

  • [Richard Feynman] I don't feel frightened by not knowing things

  • I think it's much more interesting

  • [Brian Greene] There's a larger universal reality

  • of which we are all a part

  • [Stephen Hawking] The further we probe into the universe

  • The more remarkable are the discoveries we make

  • [Carolyn Porco] The quest for the truth, in and of itself,

  • Is a story that's filled with insights

  • [Dawkins] There's real poetry in the real world

  • Science is the poetry of reality

  • [Sagan] We can do science

  • And with it, we can improve our lives

  • [Dawkins] There's real poetry in the real world

  • Science is the poetry of reality

  • [Tarter] The story of humans is the story of ideas

  • That shine light into dark corners

  • [Greene] From our lonely point in the cosmos

  • We have through the power of thought

  • Been able to peer back to a brief moment

  • After the beginning of the universe

  • [PZ Myers] I think that science changes the way your mind works

  • To think a little more deeply about things

  • [Dawkins] Science replaces private prejudice

  • With publicly verifiable evidence

  • [Dawkins] There's real poetry in the real world

  • Science is the poetry of reality

  • [Sagan] We can do science

  • And with it, we can improve our lives

  • Thanks to Filipe Calvario (123Calvario) for the subs!

What is Science?

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