Quotes About Science

One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.

I don't believe in a golden mean; I don't believe you find policy wisdom between two polar points. I don't dismiss that possibility, but I look at the platform that's so ideologically based, that's so dismissive of facts, of evidence, of science, and it's frankly hard to take seriously.

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.

Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.

Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.

I've always been into things like exploring and science on the frontiers. I had pictures of space up in my room way back in middle school, right next to the boy band posters!

The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

I love to do things like sail and hike, but they don't give me the satisfaction of knowing the potential of something you've learned in the lab.

Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.

We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

Philosophy was once considered science.

The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism.

My roots, in college, were in behavior in the context of evolution.

I didn't want to spend my life contributing to the development of more atomic weaponry.

I believe God controls the universe. I don't believe biology works in an uncontrolled fashion.

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

The more science learns, the more I'm convinced that God is real.

Cooking is chemistry, really.