Quotes About Science

As chief scientist, it's sort of my job to look at bridges between what we do and to see the connections. But when we try to understand how are planets around other stars habitable... to looking back at the Earth - how are the changes that are taking place, how are they going to affect humanity?

There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.

Ultimately, what we're looking for in the long run is to find other Earth-like planets.

We now know that stars which are abundant in heavy metals are five times more likely to harbor orbiting planets than are stars deficient in metals.

Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.

My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love it so much.

We know so much about planets and the universe and small particles and we do not know anything about the inner state of our own bodies, we do not know about this microcosm we have inside our skin.

Climate change is absolutely real and if you don't believe that you ought to believe every four-star general in our military is planning for it.

I was a science student and was aiming to be an IFS officer. But, fortunately, my destiny had some other plans for me.

I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like leaves, I like plants, and I like biology.

The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient.

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us.

My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than a generic interest in biology.

I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

God does not play dice.

The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.

I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.

I suppose the thing I'm quite pleased about is that I am, I would hope, a role model for girls and younger women who are thinking about doing science.

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

The science of being healthy is well-known. It is not esoteric. There are no magic bullets. If you want to live a long life, we've known the answers for more than a hundred years. It's a wide-ranging diet with as much fruit and veg as you can stuff into yourself, and plenty of exercise. It doesn't even matter what kind of exercise.