Quotes About Science

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

I kept thinking, I'm not going to do political journalism, because there's no way to keep my principles and be a political journalist, so I'll edit a popular science magazine. This will be my salvation, and I'll emerge with my integrity intact. That didn't even happen.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

As soon as I could ride a bike... I was always riding over to the Museum of Science and Industry to explore. It's where I first began to develop a fascination with machines and scientific principles.

Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.

We actually look to the scientific community to kind of come back to NASA and tell us what the priorities should be. And then at NASA, we try to look within our budget and say, 'What can we accommodate, and what are the most important things for the nation?'

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.

Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.

I do think of this prize as the GFP prize, and I happen to fortunately be one of the people that goes along for the ride.

It's a wonderful honor to win an Ignobel Prize.

I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.

A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.

I won't lie, I didn't know there was a concert. I've always known about the Nobel Peace Prize and the different prizes given out for science and this and that, but I didn't know there was a concert the day after. When they said, 'You're going to perform in Norway for the Nobel Peace Prize concert,' I was like, 'All right, I'm there.'

My advice is not to aim for prizes and awards. We are in this for the joy of research, the fascination, the love of science. That's the reward, really.

We said that with initial LIGO, detections would be possible, and with Advanced LIGO, detections would be probable.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.