Quotes About Science

And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!

What dreams you white-frocked kiddies have in the sanctified cloister of your laboratories. You can make yourself believe anything after a while. As long as you can make up a measurement for it.

Oh, they knew it was something, but it couldn't be that -- not that. That was imagination, that was superstition, there was no such thing as that. And before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.

The electron must have infinite mass. Of course, no one believes this is literally true. But it happens to be true in the best theory that we have at the moment. And, until a better theory comes along, viewing the electron in this manner will continue to be unavoidable

Earth had two kinds of people: those who could do the math and follow the science, and those who were happier with their own truths. But in our hearts' daily practice, whatever schools we went to, we all lived as if tomorrow would be a clone of now.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Sun and water are questions endlessly worth answering.

This is science, and worth a million times more than anything any person might ever swear to you.

Earth had two kinds of people: those who could do the math and follow the science, and those who were happier with their own truths.

photosynthesis: a feat of chemical engineering underpinning creation's entire cathedral.

Girls doing science are like bears riding bikes. Possible, but freakish

We scientists are taught never to look for ourselves in other species. So we make sure nothing looks like us!

The purpose of science was to revive and cultivate a perpetual state of wonder. For nothing deserved wonder so much as our capacity to feel it.

But what did psychological mean anymore, except a process that did not yet have a known neurobiological substrate?

How life managed to add imagination to all the other tricks in its chemistry set is a mystery

She hears him, and understands. This is science, and worth a million times more than anything any person might ever swear to you.

It's a bang on the head that births up whole sciences.

Something marvelous is happening underground, something we're just starting to learn how to see.

virus. In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath.

Frederick A. Murphy, a virologist who had helped to identify Marburg virus. He was and is one of the world's leading electron-microscope photographers of viruses. (His photographs of viruses have been exhibited in art museums.)

It could be said that without sticky tape there would be no such thing as biocontainment

Looking at Ebola under an electron microscope is like looking at a gorgeously wrought ice castle. The thing is so cold. So totally pure.

If you bleed into the second space, you bleed into your stomach and intestines. If you bleed into the third space, you bleed into the space between the skin and the flesh. The