Quotes About Science

At the intersection of food science and technology, food replacement startups are creating substitutes for the basic components of meals as well as replacements for complete meals.

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

The amount of subtle and beautiful physics that's necessary to make a smartphone work is enormous.

I always say, 'Let your experiment speak to you.' What I mean by that is I - actually, we, or, at least, I'm not smart enough, actually, to guess how nature is working, but by looking and doing the right experiments and paying close attention to the subtleties of it, you start to catch on.

In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy.

From the time I was a student, I think I was very confident in my raw abilities. I would think that, given a problem, I was as likely to solve it as anybody. But that's not enough in science to succeed, really.

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

Science has become that horrible storyteller … who gives us all the details nobody cares about.

If a young learner thinks that all viruses have DNA, that's not going to ruin their chances of success in science. But if a young learner can't understand anything in science and learns to hate it, [then] that will.

Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised

It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Piaget, J., & Garcia, R. (1989). Psychogenesis and the history of science. New York: Columbia University Press. (Original work published in 1983)

Love is a matter of chemistry, but sex is a matter of physics.

"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom"

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Not at all," Steve assured him. "I mean, they probably don't enjoy it, but they don't get hurt. Then I can count how many and what species they are, and tag them and let them go. I promise, I'm trying to save bats, not scar them for life." He took down one of the other pillowcases. "Would you like to see some of them?

We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine backbone of our actions-if they are to be moral-is responsibility. Responsibility to something higher than my family, my country, my firm, my success.

What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive neuroscientists are still very vague about the exact meaning of words like "understand," "think," and indeed the word "meaning" itself.

Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, "Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence

Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.

All good science emerges from an imaginative conception of what might be true.

Getting trapped in narrow cul-de-sac specializations and "clubs" whose membership is open only to those who congratulate and fund each other is an occupational hazard in modern science