Quotes About Science

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage.

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.

In a great many stories that deal with time travel, there's usually somebody who knows how time travel works. They lay out the rules.

I love the idea that if you're going to travel through time, you do it in this insanely dangerous car travelling at 88 miles per hour.

By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

Emotions are the glue that holds the cells of the organism together.

"Matter flows from place to place, and momentarily comes together to be you. Some people find that thought disturbing; I find the reality thrilling.

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

All great progress takes place when two sciences come together, and when their resemblance proclaims itself, despite the apparent disparity of their substance.

For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn't seem to fit together, until now.

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.

There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religions into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known.

I think the world will be a better place when science has swept all religion into the dustbin of history. What is religion but a shared belief in things that cannot be known? When we substitute concurrence for fact, fantasy quickly replaces knowledge. Why? Because knowledge is much more trouble to acquire!

Our physicists have confirmed the practicality of using an altered asteroid for transport