Quotes About Science

Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?'

When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.

Women of my generation who've stayed in science have done it by playing the men at their own game.

Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long.

I always said I wanted to be scientist, but I didn't really have the staying power.

The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

We are all enormously indebted to the National Science Foundation of the United States and the American public for steady support over close to 50 years.

The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

As long as we continue to invest in good content that increases excitement about and understanding of science, we're on the right side of this fight, and I have no problem at all stealing from the toolbox of the clickbaiters.

Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury.

My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.

With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.

I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning and excellence in the classroom.

I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

We need to beef up STEM education.

STEM education is an area where we can't afford to leave anyone behind.

Continuing advances in stem cell medicine will change all of our lives for the better.

There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue.

The average person doesn't understand what a stem cell is. There's a lack of health literacy in our nation. So the public can't really get into this dialogue because they don't understand the complexity of stem cells, not the faith-based approach, not the ideological or political, but the science behind stem cells.

I think it's amazing - I think stem cell is the future, there's no doubt in my mind.

Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

I am all for stem cell research.

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.