Quotes About Science

Science fiction as a genre has the benefit of being able to act as parable, to set up a story at a remove so you can make a real-world point without people throwing up a wall in front of it.

Scientists never study the important things. Like why some animals seem to have evolved the ability to gloat.

She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction.

Let me tell you something. The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction. This wasn't, she knew, terribly sophisticated of her, but she had no real guilt about it. She felt the English were themselves to blame for her feelings. They had spent a century relentlessly marketing their detectives and wizards and nannies, and they had to live with the results.

Ela associava sotaques ingleses a bules de chá cantantes, escolas de bruxaria e à ciência da dedução.

The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction.

What I'd like to do is give you to some kind of clinic for experimentation," Leonard said. "Something to do with cutting off heads and packing them in ice.

One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project.

That many biologists were bound to get themselves into trouble sooner or later. If you've ever been to an Ichs and Herps meeting, you know it was going to be the herpetologists who got there first.

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Our word plumbing actually derives from the Latin plumbum, meaning "lead," and that is also why this element's chemical symbol is Pb.

bones are made of calcium phosphate and that by heating these in the presence of carbon he could isolate phosphorus.

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Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

Today the link between animal products and many different diseases is as strongly supported in the scientific literature as the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.

We the chefs have a responsibility to learn about the chemical makeup of food!

Do you know that Albert Einstein expected to go to his grave keeping secret all that he knew about the atom? He pledged to himself that he would never reveal his knowledge to anyone, not because he didn't understand the great good that would come to the world through right use of the atom, but because he knew that in the wrong hands it would become destructive and produce evil results.

There was a very real worry that first splitting the atom would destroy the universe. It must have felt like doing god's work.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

When Hitler purged German universities of Jews it was like bombing his own armoury of knowledge and science. The dismissed represented not only 16 per cent of all Germany's physicists, chemists and mathematicians, but as much as 50 per cent of all the citations to papers published before 1933. Eleven of the dismissed scholars were past or future Nobel Prize winners.44

Inom några decennier kommer minnesproblem och hjärnsjukdomar kunna vara minnen blott. Blinda kommer att se, döva att höra och förlamade att gå.