Quotes About Science

Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

If the double helix was so important, how come you didn't work on It? Ther husband, Linus Pauling, when the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick, Watson and Wilkins.

In my view, the only recourse for a scientist concerned about the social consequences of his work is to remain involved with it to the end.

I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.

Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

All we know so far is what doesn't work.

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

All this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.