Science Month Philippines 2011: Guidelines, Theme, Sample Slogans

The Department of Education (DepED) through the Bureau of Secondary Education  announces that conduct of the regional and national levels of Science & Technology Fair 2011-2012 on the following dates:

Regional: September 10-11, 2011
National: October 26-29, 2011

Theme: Chemergy: Chemistry and Science Clubbing in Synergy

Siyensa ang Pagasa

This fair aims to:

• promote science and technology consciousness among the youth; and
• identify the most creative and best science researchers who will represent the country in the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair

Schools are encourages to promote science investigatory projects that will address the environmental protection and conservation of the econsystem. The special awards will be given to deserving projects.

A document provided by the DepED can be viewed and downloaded below. It contains the science month theme, guidelines, and advisories regarding the Science & Technology Fairy 2011-2012.

Sample Slogans

These are sample slogans/quotes/sayings about Science that can help you create your own slogan:

• Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.Virgil (70-19 BCE) Roman poet.
•  To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (1753-1814) English physicist and diplomat, born in U. S.
• The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.Claude Bernard (1813-78) French physiologist.
• Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.Konrad (Zacharias) Lorenz (1903-89) Austrian ethologist. [Nobel prize for medicine, 1973]
• The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.Thomas H. Huxley (1825-95) English biologist.
• This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.Pliny (“The Elder”) (23-79) Roman naturalist. (Gaius Plinius Secundus).
• Only one thing is certain–that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.Ancient paradox
• Science is simply common sense at its best.  ~Thomas Huxley
• Physics is imagination in a straight jacket.  ~John Moffat
• The great men of science are supreme artists.  ~Martin H. Fischer
• It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.  ~John Desmond Bernal, The Origin of Life, 1967
• Science is the topography of ignorance.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Medical Essays, 1883
• Observations always involve theory.  ~Edwin Hubble
• The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA.  Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.  ~Lewis Thomas
• The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he’s one who asks the right questions.  ~Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le Cru et le cuit, 1964
• Facts are not science – as the dictionary is not literature.  ~Martin H. Fischer
• Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.  ~Henry David Thoreau
• I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.  ~Bertrand Russell, Icarus, or the Future of Science, 1925

 if you have a slogan for the Science Month theme, why not share it below with a comment?

Department of Education Memo

Sources

• Science Quotes
• Quote Garden