Quotes About Science

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

Life cannot arise spontaneously but comes only from preexisting life.

I thought labs were such cinematic, spooky spaces.

My father and mother are exceptional pedagogues who can motivate and tell it from all different angles. Later, chess for me became a sport, an art, a science, everything together. I was very focused on chess, and happy with that world.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

The exploration of space: Be it by humans or robots, based on the best choice for the mission and the most efficient means to return the data and science sought. Most of the time, this will mean we send robots due to cost and danger. But sometimes, we will need the irreplaceable judgment and descriptive abilities of a person on the spot.

I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

I think I've kind of carved out a sweet spot for myself by combining science and comedy.

What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.

It once seemed that the most profound feats stemming from DNA-based science would spring from our ability to read and detect genes, which we call the science of genomics. But the real opportunities lie in our ability to write DNA, to synthesize new gene sequences and insert them into organisms, resulting in brand-new biological functions.

Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I don't feel the least bit constrained by it.

St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we've been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine.

I think that for the highest achievements nowadays... need to have the stable as a rock scientific base. And also need to own modesty.

Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me to go into the sciences. And I was a good girl. And I did what Daddy said. And that's how I ended up being a doctor. But you know, you just can't stamp out that desire to tell stories.

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret.

A lot of people view science as dull or boring, and I think the stance we take, using humour, not taking ourselves too seriously... I think people enjoy that. I think it's quite refreshing.

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it.

When a political party denies scientific facts, then by all means, they should be called out on their anti-science stance.

In science, if you stand up and say something you know is not correct, that's career-ending. It used to be that way in politics, but not anymore.

When it comes to my health, I would rather my doctor base her decisions on science rather than what she, or some lawyer, thinks will stand up in court.

The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.