Quotes About Science

Ingeniously, [Heinrich Wickmann] was able to use a pencil to mark that bit of the egg he could see inside the hen's oviduct, through its cloaca prior to laying. (I can just imagine his wife popping into his study with a cup of coffee and seeing Wickmann with his pencil up a hen's bottom: 'What are you doing, dear?' she asks...).

Science is described as a search for… on the basis of the available scientifice evidence, we currently believe. Changing your mind in the light of new ideas or better evidence constitutes cientific progress. … on the basis of the current evidence this is what we believe to be true.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.

As long as scepticism is based on a sound understanding of science it is invaluable, for that is how science progresses. But poor criticism can lead those who are unfamiliar with the science involved into doubting everything about climate change predictions.

Science helps us explore the objective mysteries of life. Spirituality helps us explore the subjective mysteries of life. Science is essentially a collective enterprise through which we come to understand how the universe works. Spirituality is essentially an individual enterprise though which we come to understand the meaning of life.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science.

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.

Without any physical, chemical, and biological fundamentals, and with equally poor understanding of basic economic forces, it is no wonder that people will believe anything.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.

'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.

Over years, the noise level will be brought down, and LIGO will be three times better and see three times farther.

I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Fauci's defenders insist listening to him is about saving lives and we should 'follow the science.' If you hear someone say that run, they're not interested in science and they are certainly not interested in your life.

I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.

I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right. But fiction isn't good at conveying information: It's good at telling stories about people in interesting situations.