Quotes About Science

I wanted to become an astronaut because I believe that the exploration of space by humans is extremely important.

I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.

Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.

I especially love right-now sci-fi: stuff that happens in current time but incorporates a scientific breakthrough that is currently being explored.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

My dad is an electrical engineer. So he was always very focused on, you know, teaching his daughters about, you know, science, math, technology. None of us actually became engineers for our careers, but I always had that exposure when I was young, and I just loved playing computer games.

I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

The pulsar map is not dangerous at all. It will likely never even be seen by extraterrestrials.

I have not ever seen an extraterrestrial creature. That would be very cool if I did.

The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.

There's a lot of work to do - not only the science but maintaining the facilities up here. When you go down from a crew of six to a crew of three, obviously you've lost half of your crew time available, so it does have an impact. But it's an impact we plan for.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.

Marvel actually sent me to a school in the Bronx where I had a fake name, and I put on an accent, and I went for, like, three days. I basically had to go to this science school and blend in with all the kids, and some of the teachers didn't even know.

When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that.

I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.

My own work falls into a subset of AI that is about building artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI for short.

In any 'big science' enterprise, like planetary exploration, where you must work in big teams of similarly driven people, it is important also to know how to work alongside others even when they may be your fiercest competitors.

I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera.

If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.