Quotes About Science

If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.

Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective.

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.

People want the answer to cancer, and they're not going to get it without spending money, because money is frozen energy that unfreezes itself when you pay people to work.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

Climate change is a real deal. So, hey deniers - cut it out, and let's get to work.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

Honesty is the precondition for genuine scientific and scholarly work.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

If science has no country, the scientist should have one, and ascribe to it the influence which his works may have in this world.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.