Quotes About Science

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

One can not impede scientific progress.

It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on applications of our understanding of the genome. Should there be limits? I think there should. I think the public has expressed their concern about ways this information might be misused.

It's very hard to juggle a science fair project as well as your schoolwork.

The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.

While many federal agencies are engaged with international partners on science and technology projects, there is a need to coordinate these projects across our government network and to identify opportunities for additional beneficial collaborations.

I think funding risky projects is very important.

At the National Institute for Medical Research, I came into contact with biological scientists and formed collaborative projects with several of them. In particular, George Popjak and I shared an interest in cholesterol.

All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.

The '70s was a decade that was crammed with prominent women science fiction writers, and a lot of women made their debut in that decade or really came to prominence.

The problem for large scientific projects is to do something that is being done for the first time, balanced against cost, schedule. and promises to the government. That is a hard balancing act.

Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.

I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.

There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can't deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it's not politically conservative or liberal.

I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science.

I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.