Quotes About Science

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.

Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's

Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

Science is science, but a girl MUST get her hair done.

New research shows that men and women are born different. What must you think if that is shocking news to you? Men and women are born different.

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

Having started in sciences, I then turned around and said, 'Oh, I don't want to do sciences. I want to do philosophy.' And to their credit my parents said, 'if that's what you want to do, then go for it'. Then I got the scholarship to Stanford, which was very nice for the parents to talk to their friends about.

When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

It now appears that essentially every star has a planetary system. In the very beginning, we thought at best half.

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series 'Star Wars' is no exception.

'Stargate' was more a fantasy.

There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician's impulse may be to believe that the same holds true for science. Certainly, there are disputes in science. But on the question of climate change, the divide is stark.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

We forget how recently astronomers figured out what the stars are made of, what makes them shine, how distant they are, how they are born, and whether they remain immutable or evolve and die.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

I guess rock stars are role models for the kids who listen to that music. My role models have all been geologists - you know, the guys who are doing fieldwork until they're 70.

For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that's running on principles that we don't even understand.

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.