Quotes About Science

The science-denial machinery is a serious adversary, and it has a big advantage over real science: it does not need to win its dispute with real science; it just needs to create a public illusion that there is a dispute.

For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, which is faster than we ever imagined.

I imagined there would be a way to crack the diffraction barrier. But of course I didn't know exactly how it would work, but I had a gut feeling that there must be something, and so I tried to think about it, to be creative.

Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors.

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.

I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.

I actually think it will be possible one day to be immortal.

With modern medicine prolonging life no matter what condition you're in, it seems like we're working towards immortality by science.

If we think of the immune system as a machine, then we are far from even knowing all of its parts.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

If you want to work in engineering and to have an impact that's global, come work in the aerospace sector.

Choosing players in any sport is an imperfect science.

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

Public sharing is an important part of science.

I believe one day nano-robots will play an important role in medicine.

Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are trying to study and search for something - life - that we can't define in a rigorous way. We only have one example of a biosphere, so we can't really give a good definition.

The art of doing science is doing the important things first.

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

I majored in economics in college. Certain things were just out, like chemistry or biology, or science or math, that was just out of the question. That's just an aptitude impossibility, I couldn't have done it.

I was really impressed by '2312.'

I don't think it is about stalling or curing: it's about reversing. Curing gives you the impression of immortality. Stalling gives you the impression that you'll be 85 forever, which is not great.