Quotes About Science

The more we understand what happens in living cells, the more incredibly powerful you realize things can be when they work from the bottom up, by interaction of one molecule and another.

Our femtosecond snapshots can examine a molecule at discrete instants in time.

I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.

We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?

In arguing that machines think, we are in the same fix as Darwin when he argued that man shares common ancestors with monkeys, or Galileo when he argued that the Earth spins on its axis.

No one likes doing primate experiments, but some research can only be done on monkeys.

As a scientist and successful businessman, I understand that no one has a monopoly on good ideas.

I think, as kids, everyone is fascinated with dinosaurs. I definitely was. It is the ultimate big, huge, monster.

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read or encountered months or years earlier rather than in the last few days.

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.

Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.

When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings, and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

Ethologists are often accused of drawing false analogies between animal and human behaviour. However, no such thing as a false analogy exists: an analogy can be more or less detailed and, hence, more or less informative.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.

Hopefully, we will get more and more people interested in doing research in space. I think eventually it's also going to be a great commercial market.

Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.

There's a large cluster of stars that are orbiting the center of our galaxy. And by measuring the motion of stars, and in particular, their orbits, we can figure out whether or not there's a central black hole.