Quotes About Science

The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

NASA is a big organization with a lot of needs that have to be met. So there are a lot of opportunities.

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

I was fascinated with optical illusions.

I'm a genetic optimist.

I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules.

Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

Algae are such basic, simple organisms.

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.

Because we have a society that by and large is illiterate in these areas - science, math and engineering - what we do is a mystery to them, and they find it scary. And because of that, it creates easy opportunities for opponents of development, activist organizations, to manufacture fear.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Film production is not rocket science. It's about organizing resources and pooling in funds.