Quotes About Science

With COBE, we can see things before the lights came on. While we probably will not rewrite the book of cosmology with this mission, we will write another chapter.

The Cassini mission was all about a comprehensive investigation of Saturn and everything in the Saturn system, and it's been a mission that's been done jointly with the Europeans.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.

I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder.

Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

Every single cell in each person's body tells us whether that person is a male or a female. There is no human being in history whose cells have some mixture of the two, nor anyone who has ever been able to change that cellular reality.

Despite frequently mocking anti-abortion activists as anti-science know-nothings, abortion rights absolutists are the ones who play fast and loose with the facts of abortion.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably for 400 or 500 years, well predating modern science.

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.

Genetically modified foods are good.

Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

For consumers, the lesson is simple: Genetically modified foods are safe to eat.

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

A molecular gastronomist is really just someone who explores the world of science and food.

I get called lots of things - a biochemist, a molecular biologist, a chemical engineer - and I guess I am all of those. I identify most as human!

We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.

Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.