Quotes About Science

If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.

I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

Animal research and testing has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide.

Every time I see some piece of medical research saying that caffeine is good for you, I high-five myself. Because I'm going to live forever.

Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.

The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

The use of animals in medical research remains absolutely essential.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things.

We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube.

Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.