Quotes About Science

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is illegal. Not that it's bad, just that the law as it is now, is that if you die, you're dead.

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Although science and technology open up boundless opportunities, they also present great perils because Satan employs these marvelous discoveries to his great advantage.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.

The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.

In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.

In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in 2009 President Obama was praised for reversing it, even though his decision was arguably just as political.

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born.

We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

A pressure cooker will destroy all lectin except gluten.

Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.

People have extreme beliefs about whether it is right for humans to tamper with embryos in any way at all. Sometimes the values discussion gets conflated with the science discussion. We shouldn't pretend we're having an argument about science when we're having an argument about values.

My heart would race when I went to Pacific Science Center because I would pretend to be an astronaut, and now I get to come back and give back to the community that I think compelled me to where I am.

I actually think the chances that we'll find E.T. are pretty good.

We already have a pretty good knowledge of the universe's mass-energy content, so if we can get a handle on its geometry, then we will be able to work out exactly what the fate of the universe will be.

There's a danger of some of the best people saying, 'I don't want a career in science.'

For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic.

A lot of people seem to think that data science is just a process of adding up a bunch of data and looking at the results, but that's actually not at all what the process is.