Quotes About Science

My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I never had any use for him or anyone connected with that science.

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

It was an extremely trying time for me. Best was still intimate with MacLeod and the others about the laboratory. I was out of the picture entirely. MacLeod had taken over the whole physiological investigation. Collip had taken over the biochemistry. Professor Graham and Dr. Campbell had taken over the whole clinical aspect of the investigation.

I wrote and illustrated a science experiment book called 'The Mad Professor'.

I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.

Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

There's nothing in this world like being the first to discover some fundamental fact of nature. It's profoundly satisfying.

Cassini was so profoundly, scientifically successful. It's amazing to me, even, what we were able to do right up until the end.

Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes.

In 1960, I enrolled in the chemical engineering program at UNAM, as this was then the closest way to become a physical chemist, taking math-oriented courses not available to chemistry majors.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.

I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math.

I'd love to present a popular science programme because it's something I feel very passionate about.

We didn't grow up in a jock household. In fact, my dad is an entrepreneur. He was a computer programmer; he was a professor of actuarial science at Wharton for 13 years, then started his own company that was software-based.

I went to Drexel University, majored in computer science. Drexel has a great program - they call it co-op - but its, like, mandatory to graduate to do internships. I loved it because it helped me figure out very quickly that I didn't really want to be a programmer.

I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2.

I will do my best to support science in Korea and space programs in Korea.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.