Quotes About Science

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

Languages are true analytical methods.

People think if you have deciphered the genome of humans that you can change everything. But you cannot change everything, because you do not know what the genes mean, and you have no methods for changing them, and you can't do experiments with humans like you can with animals.

In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.

I decided that since I was trying to teach 'style' of thinking in science and engineering, and 'style' is an art, I should therefore copy the methods of teaching used for the other arts - once the fundamentals have been learned.

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

I always imagined myself sitting on a ship. Diving in, catching a fish, putting the fish under the microscope, looking at it, categorising it, catching an alien, and saving the world.

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it.

I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.

To go below one nanokelvin is like running a mile below four minutes for the first time.

Our saints had said that Earth existed 1.96 million years ago. Earlier, science did not accept this, but later, it had to.

The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our needs - is contrary to our scientific understanding of evolution and, of course, to the fossil record, which shows the existence of non-human primates and other animals millions of years before there were any human beings at all.

It is a failure of imagination and methodology to claim that it is necessary to experiment on millions of people without their consent in order to produce good data science.

I think 'Tron' is a good example of minimalism.

I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want the science part of the novel to overshadow the fiction. Being medically accurate wasn't my main goal.

I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take me into minor surgeries when I was a kid and let me watch, so I definitely have a passion for it, but it's not as big a passion as I have for acting and creating characters.

The word "body" here simply means a collection of energy—a body of energy. Modern science tells us that everything we perceive is energy.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -- Thomas H. Huxley

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.