Quotes About Science

Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

I entered Harvard in 1965 not really knowing what I wanted to do. This confusion seems to have lost me a fellowship. G. D. Searle and Company, the pharmaceutical firm, had their home office in Skokie, and they gave a fellowship each year to a graduate from my high school that was going to major in science in college.

Analytical pharmacology has got an important and exciting future.

Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.

I did a PhD in molecular bio-physics.

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

Wormholes are a gravitational phenomena. Or imaginary gravitational phenomena, as the case may be.

David Attenborough's 'Life' series is phenomenal. He's a wonderful modern soothsayer.

James Cameron has always been one of my favorite filmmakers. The first 'Terminator' is such a phenomenal film. It's not just that, though - he's also a very interesting person, James Cameron. It's fascinating to talk to him about science and engineering.

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read!

Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same is true of philosophers, historians and literary critics.

Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear.

In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous - though, of course, they would not have used that phrase.