Quotes About Science

No matter what I've published - and you can look it up, I've published quite a lot in science, quite a few books too - none of it's very important. All will be forgotten and in a few years time will be a few comments in eight-point type in footnotes at the bottom of the page somewhere.

If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.

It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

If you go on a journey to Mars and get into deep space, there is several hundred times, maybe 300 times the radiation.

Mars does not have an atmosphere and does not have a magnetic field today, so the planet doesn't have the protection from radiation that our atmosphere and magnetic fields provide us on Earth.

Contrary to popular belief, not a significant amount of research goes into cockroach radiation.

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

My main interest is in trying to find radically different kinds of neural nets.

When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's kind of like when I'm with my girlfriend.

We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

To advance science is highly honourable, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has done much to raise the prestige of scientific discovery.

I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it.

Certainly science, because of its ability to increase our capacities to do things, raises terrible risks for us all. If it were possible to undiscover nuclear fission, I would be very happy to undiscover it, because of the risks that it puts us all under.

As far as I'm concerned, raising the bar or encouraging kids in large numbers to be interested in science, I can't think of anything I'd rather see happen.

I am obsessed with trying to understand why there is such rampant denialism of science in our country. I find this exuberant irrationalism extremely disturbing. And this is particularly troubling, because I am a professional scientist.

Only engineers would do something like random mutagenesis.

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

One thing I liked about being in microscopy is it gets you out of your box constantly because there's such a diverse range of applications.

Gene editing will be used to alter DNA to erase the origins of a range of debilitating inherited disorders.

My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me.

There is good science you can do in space. There is stuff there you cannot do on Earth and we can gain understanding from it.

My favorite galaxy of all is called the Sombrero, NGC 4594. It's an amazing galaxy that is really two galaxies in one.