Quotes About Science

Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.

We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.

Hubble is unique. Nothing else can do what it can do. Once it's gone, we're going to be paralyzed.

I love parasites! I can't get enough of them.

'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.

We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

Dark matter is particularly intriguing because it's some kind of particle - that's for sure.

My work on black holes was on the connection between black holes and elementary particles.

People want to know about what's going on with what's in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It's a lot of curiosity out there.

We ought to teach kids more about the Big Bang and entropy and particles. Every high school graduate should know that everything in the universe is made of a handful of particles. That's not a hard thing to know. But that's not what's emphasized.

I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science. All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.

I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like.

I was particularly good at math and science.

Back in the day, I've heard, particularly with the near-Earth asteroids, there were some asteroid hunters that knew the names of every one.

Science, logic, and truth should not be partisan issues; they are the cornerstones of fields that have made the United States a leader in innovation and a better place for everyone to live.

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.