Quotes About Science

Joseph Mandell and I began by attempting to make chromatography of DNA work.

I feel like in my field, like in fitness, or in health, you kind of need to read journal articles, like health journal articles, or fitness.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe, known as Intelligent Design, and eagerly jump on every tidbit of information that seems to go their way.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

Yes, from the time I was in junior high school I decided I wanted to be a chemist. I didn't quite know what a chemist was, but I kept it up and got my Ph.D. in physical chemistry.

I'm comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk science and real science.

I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.

Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.

Reversal of ageing is high on my list of things to do, and not just because I'm getting old.

I love hands-on science and teaching the kids. I love to see kids experiment with things that they can make happen. Not just something you read the directions to and put it together that way. Things that can be constructed, something they can touch. What a great day when you can touch a child's mind with these ideas.

Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have long been discouraged from paying attention to the category, dismissed as a branch of juvenile literature.

I'm not keen on interfering with nature; I don't want to edit my genome.

Cocoa boosts brain serotonin. Almost every single antidepressant aims at either enhancing serotonin or keeping it in the brain longer. Chocolate or cocoa does that very well.

Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.

Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Scientific knowledge belongs to humanity.

In the lab, we're discovering that nature can do chemistry we never dreamed was possible.

If it is made in a lab then it takes a lab to digest.

Many of the most eloquent people I have ever met work in lab coats every day.

The next Internet could be in the making somewhere in someone's lab.