Quotes About Science

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

My own beliefs are that the road to a scientific discovery is seldom direct and that it does not necessarily require great expertise. In fact, I am convinced that often a newcomer to a field has a great advantage because he is ignorant and does not know all the complicated reasons why a particular experiment should not be attempted.

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence.

The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.

I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.

My PhD project was actually doing something that required a high-intensity laser. It was supposed to work in a way that many, many photons of light would interact with an atom all at the same time.

Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.