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Quotes About Science

"They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on me."
~ Montel Williams
Religion is designed for stupid people. Science is designed for stupid people who are embarrassed by their stupidity, who want to do something about it.
~ Paul Lutus
Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.
~ Arne Duncan
Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.
~ Bill Gates
Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
~ Bram Stoker
If anything, more kids that want to get good at golf will get fine-tuned. It's factual. It's science, how to build a golfer. I think that's huge.
~ Nick Faldo
There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?
~ Pablo Picasso
Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don't want there to be anything beyond nature. They don't want a supernatural being to affect nature.
~ Michael Behe
There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism .
~ Richard Dawkins
A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?
~ Robert Musil
If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.
~ Susan Fiske
Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.
~ Temple Grandin
The science of loving, yes, that's the only kind of science I want I'd barter away everything I possess to win it.
~ Therese of Lisieux
A man of science doesn't discover in order to know, he wants to know in order to discover.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.
~ Cindy Margolis
Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them operate on you yet? I don't think so.
~ Michael Pollan
You must never believe all these things which the scientists say because they always want more than they can get-they are never satisfied.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how to program self-assembly so that we can build anything.
~ Paul W. K. Rothemund
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a scientist or an actress. My daughter really wants to be a scientist. I really want her to be a scientist, not an actress!
~ Alysia Reiner
Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.
~ Charles Sanders Peirce
I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.
~ Dallas Campbell
On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.
~ Francois Arago
[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.
~ Frederick Soddy