Quotes About Science

DNA wasn't a simple recipe book that could be readily understood.

In space there's no way to ground an electric current. If you have stray voltage, it'll find a path, no matter what.

People tend to think that scientists are experts in all things, when in fact we can be so specialized we know less than a layperson about many scientific topics—like bear behavior.

People tend to think that scientists are experts in all things, when in fact we can be so specialized we know less

All of the technology described in this book is either currently being tested on the launch pad or in advance stages of development. This is a story of the very near future.

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it.

Researchers have e-mailed text files across the Internet, uploaded them to DNA replicators, and then dropped the DNA copy into "blank" cells, which have then started up and become identical versions of the original organism. It still blows my mind that you can e-mail life like you can cat pictures. Any day now we'll read about some researchers actually e-mailing the cat across the Internet.

That the human body or any other animal is a system comprised of millions of smaller systems, some of them completely separate from us genetically, shouldn't be an earthshaking revelation.

If I were looking for a bacterium that could eat oil, I'd be collecting samples of dirt from the middle of busy freeways. I don't know if I'd find one, but I'm sure I'd discover something interesting.

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

Richard Feynman would say, "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

A scientist is someone trying to see order in chaos.

Neuroscientists say they can predict an action our mind has decided to take moments before our conscious mind has even decided what we think we're going to do. The function of consciousness, they argue, isn't to make decisions, but to rationalize them after the fact.

This is why I laugh at the notion of reconciling faith and science. Science is based on the premise that logic and reason can tell us the true nature of reality. Religion is based on the idea that when logic and reason don't support a predetermined view of reality, they are at fault.

Even testing a theory and reaching an expected conclusion doesn't really "prove" it in the sense that people think. It only changes the degree of certainty.

I save him my diatribe about people with bullshit EdDs and PsyDs that I've run into in academia who couldn't pass a fifth-grade science exam all insisting that they be addressed with the same reverence as the head of oncology at a research hospital.

Science is based on the premise that logic and reason can tell us the true nature of reality. Religion is based on the idea that when logic and reason don't support a predetermined view of reality, they are at fault.

Good science requires having your ideas challenged, and that's often difficult for the people whose paychecks you sign.

A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding

A scientist is someone trying to see order in chaos. Sometimes it simply can't be done, as science tells us via quantum mechanics and chaos theory. A thing can

They're coming ! All of us waiting for the little green men to probe us or decimate us or turn us into shrubbery.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

many experiments which intrigued him. He was particularly interested in the properties of light. By using a spinning colour

But it is this peculiar behaviour of the gravity spring which enables the universe to have zero total energy.