Quotes About Science

It's important that everyone realizes how much scientists still don't know.

I would say it's important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to.

You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up.

People don't generally listen to scientists much.

When we think of scientists, we hear a man's voice.

The best artists are scientific, and the best scientists are artistic.

Many of my friends are scientists.

I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.

My parents are both scientists. They like order.

Women scientists' hands are like every other woman's hands.

Private equity is a science project for many, many years, and when you have a science project, it leaves the human beings as a secondary fact.

The evidence for human-made climate change is overwhelming.

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

The pace and demands in any field, be it genetics, nanotechnology or cosmology, can only be met with increased international cooperation and collaborative projects.

Biology is now accelerating at a pace faster than Moore's Law.

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer, you know, she didn't even get paid to be a scientist. And yet, she was doing Nobel Prize-winning work. How ridiculous is that?

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

There are some galaxies that not only teach us things but are just gorgeously beautiful to look at. My favorite example is the Antenne, which is a pair of colliding galaxies.

I have oft-times been besought, by divers gentlemen, to set down on paper what I have beheld through my newly invented microscopia, but I have generally declined.

In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.

I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.