Quotes About Science

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

I am particularly interested in Alzheimer's disease and have been for some time now.

You are not just about death and disease.

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

Maximum distribution of research findings is essential to maximise their impact.

Beyond 'Contact,' I think there's something compelling about 'District 9.'

In my district, energy means family-supporting jobs and cutting-edge science.

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

If you don't have material, you don't have an experiment.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.

Data science requires having that cultural space to experiment and work on things that might fail.

Experimentation is an active science.

In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.

Scientific experiments are expensive, and people are entitled to know about them if they want to. I think it is very difficult to convey ideas.

I am not an expert on Chinese science fiction. I probably know more than anyone else in the West, but that doesn't actually mean I am an expert.

It's amazing how one introductory course in environmental science can turn a 20-year-old into an Biofuels expert.

I believe there is true expertise in some endeavors, and not in others. There is obviously no such thing as expertise in predicting the results of coin tosses, but there is expertise in predicting the behavior of lasers.

We haven't found anything that we can't explain at all. I hope that will happen.

I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy friends over the years.

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics.