Quotes About Science

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.

As a researcher, I look forward to being able to do space science in a space environment.

Oregano is such an antioxidant-rich herb that researchers decided to see if it could reduce the DNA-damaging effects of radiation.

Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that the mycelial cultures of this mushroom are most active but that the fruitbodies, the natural form of the mushroom, are not.

Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help to design some of the experiments that come from other primary researchers. So it becomes very important that you have a science background.

It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.

As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year.

I'd like to continue researching cancer for a while so that this immunotherapy will help save more cancer patients than ever before.

Galactica' resembles 'Bonanza' because it's all theater.

I admit that I resent running out of research money.

Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.

I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.

Solid-fuel rockets can't easily be shut down on command.

We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.

Since when did scientific evidence become a reason to shy away from ecological action just because it wasn't popular?

Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them.

I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study.

When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.

You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.

Apple is a unique company in that the art and the science sit together very nicely. There's an appreciation for both sides of the brain.

Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.