Quotes About Science

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Our conviction that green cheese makes up a negligible fraction of the Moon's interior comes not from direct observation but from the gross incompatibility of that idea with other things we think we know.

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.

The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.

In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.

The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

Genomics is a new idea. Like the PC, it's not obvious at first that anyone would want one. It's like, 'Hey, we've already got one genome, why do we need more?'

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

It's a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do.

The Bible is not something piously stuffy and boring but a scientific procedure for successful living.

A história é um conhecimento que se situa entre a ciência propriamente dita e a poesia. O saber histórico não é quantitativo, nem o historiador pode descobrir leis históricas. O historiador descreve como o cientista e tem visões como o poeta. (...) A história nos dá uma compreensão do passado e, por vezes, do presente. Mais do que um saber, é uma sabedoria.

A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.

cuando a uno se le contagiaba el mal de la ciencia, resultaba tan imposible escapar de él como de la peste...

I am a creature of chemicals.