Quotes About Science

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.

We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.

Trust science, believe that innovation and discoveries are good for us, and make decisions based on data and evidence.

I still meet old-school scientists who are like, 'Oh honey, women aren't good at science.' You kind of dismiss them as insane.

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Science class is traditionally taught as science history class - you learn all these facts that someone else discovered, which you need to know, but that's not really an inspiring way to learn science.

Many people, including myself, had our scientific lives changed by the inspiring new vision of science that Popper gave us.

Artemisinin... is a true gift from old Chinese medicine. But this is not the only instance in which the wisdom of Chinese medicine has borne fruit.

India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.

Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are afraid... He's got to perform. The post-doc is an indentured labourer.

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.

The gas man came one day, and he said, 'What does your husband do?' so I told him, and he said, 'What's the use of that?' He had a point, but on the other hand, I firmly believed in Stephen and his brilliance. I encouraged him to popularise his science just because the gas man had been so insulting.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

Intellectually, I believe there's no free will.

I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both grown up in sort of rural parts of the South and were oddballs where they grew up. They were budding intellectuals.

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

Among the radio astronomers of SETI - the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - it's only sort-of a joke that the true hallmark of intelligent life is the creation of radio astronomy.