Quotes About Science

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth

Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.

Science is the only thing that disproves science, and it does it all the time.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.

That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.