Quotes About Science

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

I love mathematics not only because it is applicable to technology but also because it is beautiful.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.

Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.

The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.

It's not completely inconceivable that someday you'll be able to download your own memories.

I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.

There's no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.

All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.