Quotes About Science

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

If laws are just properties of objects, how can those laws continue to operate when the object is not really there?

The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.

It's not like I actually understand the properties of sound.

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes. I think appreciating the magic of reality, going from 'can't happen' to 'could happen,' is the fundamental appeal of science fiction.

In 'Nier Automata', the protagonists are androids, not humans, and that's very common in a Science Fiction story.

New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.

The Life at Conception Act legislatively declares what most Americans believe and what science has long known - that human life begins at the moment of conception and, therefore, is entitled to legal protection from that point forward.

It's time to chart a new path in forest management that's guided by science, protects rural communities, benefits the environment, and actively manages our forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires.

The food we eat goes beyond its macronutrients of carbohydrates, fat and protein. It's information. It interacts with and instructs our genome with every mouthful, changing genetic expression.

I realized that the way most people were going about protein engineering was doomed failure.

I got quite good results from protein plates.

Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.

When I started engineering proteins I didn't know how hard it would be.

Proteins aren't designed, they're evolved.

I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates.