Quotes About Science

Infected by political ideology, if you dare question climate models, your career is done.

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

I was a political science major. I was always interested in social impact.

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

America's got a Darwin problem - and it matters. According to a 2009 Gallup poll taken on the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, fewer than 40% of Americans are willing to say that they 'believe in evolution.'

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

Diversity and inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in science should not affect the way education is handled or research is carried out. So diversity should not be a problem but rather an opportunity to involve a large talent pool.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

I would have become a pilot if it wasn't for my poor eyesight and the fact that I am hopeless in science.

We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens in the middle is poorly understood.

Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

If science has a lot to do with what works, then clearly there's much about today's social and economic setup that isn't scientific, because things aren't working very well for a majority of the world's population or the environment.

There is a very large chunk of our population who firmly believe in extraterrestrials.

I'm a big believer that sci-fi lives in literature, that the true sci-fi population is out there reading a gazillion authors.

The idea that, you know - when I was growing up - that everybody would carry around a portable communicating device, that was science fiction when I was a kid.

David Sainsbury has been good for science and good for innovation in the U.K. He has been an outstanding science minister and shown extraordinary passion and commitment to his portfolio.

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

I like thinking about what could be out there, and I love the questions that sci-fi poses.

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so the science has to be in the novels as science and not just as metaphors.