Quotes About Science

Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.

But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

Earlier theories ... were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past. [Coining the "big bang" expression.]

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.