Quotes About Science

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon - in humans, chimeras are one person who contains two sets of DNA. That's right. One person comes up in tests as two different people.

I don't mind if other people call me an atheist, but I call myself a naturalist. Atheism doesn't tell you much about what I do believe in; the term naturalist opens up the discussion better.

Sometimes people get upset when you tell the truth, when you share the facts as science dictates.

To be labeled a 'science-denier' in 2017 often just means you've upset someone who insists on teaching strict, Darwinian orthodoxy in schools or who advocates particular climate legislation or who supports ethically fraught research on embryos.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.

My experiments proved that the radiation of uranium compounds can be measured with precision under determined conditions and that this radiation is an atomic property of the element of uranium.

I would say that I was absolutely convinced of the possibility of our making an uranium engine, but I never thought that we would make a bomb; and at the bottom of my heart, I was really glad that it was to be an engine and not a bomb.

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Why should human females become sterile in their forties while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

At the beginning of all experimental work stands the choice of the appropriate technique of investigation

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science

Homoeopathy is supposed to work miracles.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.