Quotes About Science

I am passionately devoted to the study of life, and particularly to the higher forms of life.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

Certain types of cancer patients are finally being cured thanks to immunotherapy.

Can you make fancy patterns of water that actually have some computation power? I'm betting that fluids are complex enough to do this.

If you have a child with autism, and he or she has good intelligence, with no delay in language learning maybe there is an advantage to autism as well? Maybe it gives them a better understanding of mathematics, or science? After all, the essence of science and the essence of autism is to notice patterns that others have not noticed.

In genomics, there's a massive amount of information in which you can look for patterns and develop insights.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of.

Investing in better-quality education outcomes - especially in maths and science - more than pays for itself.

On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial.

Whatever happens to science in schools, there's something peculiar going on if students don't see it as creative.

I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So I was like, 'Oh, OK, baby doctor.' Until I got to college, and all the courses of science with the blood, guts and cadavers? I was like, 'Mm, no.'

I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It's corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists.

Peer review is fine, as long as you're making incremental improvements to a technology.

Government research has to go through peer review.

Love, as life, will fortunately remain an eternal mystery which no science will be able to penetrate and which reason cannot rule. Our only hope for the future is that man, endowed with a more delicate sense, will listen to the secrets of his own life.

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

Pennsylvania has some of the best science in the world.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

Everything that people say is testable.

What I perceive in science fiction is that it's more about how everything looks than what's going on, which I think is just difficult if you're an action character. I think they are about character, not about what it looks like.