Quotes About Science

The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.

Bacteria mineralized the rocks; they deposited the iron. They made the geology we see.

When the state was going to tell you what your future would be, science fiction was irrelevant.

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

Jim Rollins is the king of the weird science action genre.

In 1978, Elizabeth Blackburn, working with Joe Gall, identified the DNA sequence of telomeres. Every time a cell divides, it gets shorter. But telomeres usually don't. So there must be something happening to the telomeres to keep their length in equilibrium.

I've invented a new type of engine that converts heat directly into electricity with no moving mechanical parts. It's called the Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter, the JTEC.

Iran wants to join the group of countries that want to know about the biggest things, like space.

Behind every racist joke is a scientific fact.

After all, in the nineteenth century, racists relied on phrenology, or the "science" of determining personality traits based on the shape of the head, to declare that people of color, Jews, and others had different minds. Thus, even having an identical mind is not sufficient if there is a reason and desire to discriminate.

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

The real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new commodities.

Science is but an image of the truth.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

Aristippus said: That those that studied particular sciences, and neglected philosophy, were like Penelope's wooers, that made love to the waiting women.

Knowledge is power. The real test of knowledge is not whether it is true but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100% correct. Truth, consequently, is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility. A theory that enables us to do new things constitutes knowledge.

And inquiries into nature have the best result when they begin with physics and end in mathematics.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

A person's mental activities are entirely due to the behavior of nerve cells, glial cells, and the atoms, ions, and molecules that make them up and influence them.

All approaches at a higher level are suspect until confirmed at the molecular level.

It took over twenty-five years for our model of DNA to go from being only rather plausible, to being very plausible (as a result of the detailed work on DNA fibers), and from there to being virtually certainly correct. Even then it was correct only in outline, not in