Quotes About Science

Medical science was in a far less advanced state than now, and they used to put it down to laziness.

The more paleontological discoveries that are made, the more that we realize our knowledge of dinosaur types is fairly complete, and no ancestral forms ever will be found because they do not exist.

The flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid stuff - had turned into the energy of the flash (E-mc2). Totally. Nothing left behind. No ash. No smoke. No smell. Nada. One moment it's there, the next moment - pffft - gone. What would it mean? Only this: Nothing lasts. Nothing. Because everything that exists is made of protons.

Do you believe in enchanted places?" He took the pipe from his mouth and looked straight at me. "Absolutely." I was confused. "But you're a scientist. A man of science." "A man of bones. You can't be up to your eyeballs in bones and not believe in enchanted places." (p. 101)

An ignorant orange grifter was elected president and turned science denial into official government position.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.

I will work and fight for stem cell research.

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.

Sometimes people try to give me advice going forward, and they say, "You know, you've just got to work to be more likeable in Washington." And I laugh and say, "You know this isn't rocket science.

Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others.

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.