Quotes About Science

Economics is not a gay science. It is a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

When he went through a cancer scare and had a benign tumor removed, his sometime friend Evelyn Waugh remarked that it was typical of modern science to find the only part of him that was not malignant and remove it. Randolph was an alcoholic for most of his adult life

I have great faith in lasers, but no one's putting one near my eye.

My favorite book is 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson.

Plurality should not be posited without necessity.

I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I've had four surgeries on my knees, arthritis in my neck, separated my shoulders, broken my nose. I'm just gonna hope that science advances faster than I can deteriorate. Because what am I gonna do? Put a perfect body into the ground? What's the point of that?

I have been described by one of my colleagues as a 'militant agnostic' with my tagline, 'I don't know, and neither do you!' I take this hard-line, fence-sitting position because it is the only position consistent with both my scientific ethos and my conscience.

My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college.

I'm kind of a bit of a space nerd. I like all of that kind of stuff.

I grew up in Miami, which is a very 'cool' city, but I was a science nerd.

I loved science. I still love it; I'm a nerd in that sense.

It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.

We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect them won't be simple.

Deep neural networks are responsible for some of the greatest advances in modern computer science.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body.

Moore's Law-based technology is so much easier than neuroscience. The brain works in such a different way from the way a computer does.

NBC is working with a team of astrophysicists to create a new day of the week.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

New Jersey makes important contributions to the space program. We want to make sure it just doesn't happen in Houston.

What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.