Quotes About Science

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.

The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.

How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.

I think that it's an inexact science, but the trick is this: not to quit on anything too soon. All of this takes time. It's an investment.

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

I think no matter what, science can provide a force for good, fundamentally. Over time, like all things, it's open to abuse.

Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art!

The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century. This upheaval will take time to fully reveal its implications.