Quotes About Science

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

Megahertz: This is really, really big hertz.

Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

I went to a school that's predominantly computer science and engineering. So, there's a real shortage of hot girls, let's say.

It's actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers.

I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer science is very similar to the mindset in Zen.

I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?

They're not predicting global warming based on what's happened in the past; they're basing it on what their computer predictions say, and nothing more.

Computer viruses are alive.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.]

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.