Quotes About Science

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason.

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.

I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

I have watched all the work going on there, and the more I see of it the more I am convinced that Mendelism has nothing to do with evolution.

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.

There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of why some ideas about how civilizations work catch on and others don't.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

We are going to see a steady stream, I predict, of Nobel prizes coming out of chemistry and given to women.

As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on.

I think my father, who was Chinese, basically felt if we didn't major in science, we would starve on the streets, so we all went into science unquestioningly. I kind of faked my way through physics.