Quotes About Science

We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.

My first published writings were trying to take scientific concepts and make them clear for a general audience.

Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers.

I think publishing is a cost of research in the same way as buying a centrifuge is a cost of research.

Graphene is a single plane of graphite that has to be pulled out of bulk graphite to show its amazing properties.

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.

If every country's climate policy was driven purely by environmental science, we may have no need for international agreements.

When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.

We must give scientists the opportunity through funding and time to pursue curiosity-based, long-term, basic-science research.

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California's push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.

I do get a little disheartened when you hear about how many girls get discouraged to not pursue a career in the sciences, and I feel like seeing women that are portrayed in this way - and beyond that, just three dimensional, complicated women - those are always going to be the stories that I gravitate to most.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.