Quotes About Science

I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

Your genome isn't really secret.

I always wanted to do action-adventure, and science fiction genres were always something that were of great interest to me.

There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

I don't believe in ghosts, but I believe in aliens and alternate dimensions.

I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are Hertling, Suarez, Gibson and Stephenson, but I enjoy many others. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I was interested.

I was glad I liked chemistry.

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.

If we don't concentrate on resurrecting science, we're not going to be able to compete in a global economy.

My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.

Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this point that technology and science had exposed its potential without revealing the limitations.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.

When certain people have certain beliefs, they can be unyielding, and that's really what faith is. There's a large place in the world for faith, but when it comes to a scientific, political, and economic issue, dogma is not a very good place to start.

Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.

I'm very interested in poo. We don't have a very good relationship with poo, and we should have.

There's a lot of faith expressed by scientists about science. It's kind of an act of faith that science is a good thing. We don't know that for sure. We may not know that millions of years from now.

I am a scientist. To be specific, I am a woman scientist. This, I have been told and have come to believe, is a good thing. In fact, it is such a good thing that America needs more of us. Everyone seems to be very sure of this. The thing that no one is sure about, however, is how to make it happen.