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Quotes About Science

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.
~ Charles Darwin
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
~ Kary Mullis
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation
~ Jeremy Bentham
Physics as we know it will be over in six months.
~ Max Born
Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams.
~ Mike Birbiglia
I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.
~ Ernst Mach
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
~ Carl Sagan
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
~ Edward Thorndike
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.
~ James Clerk Maxwell
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
~ John B. S. Haldane
In science, the kind of evidence matters; all unlikelihoods are not created equal.
~ Kyle Hill
You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.
~ Richard Thaler
I am a student of evolution and adaptation.
~ Frances Arnold
The study of evolution is an evolution in itself.
~ Hendrik Poinar
People who believe in creationism say that by teaching evolution you are indoctrinating them with science, but I just don't agree with that.
~ Alice Roberts
It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.
~ Edward Witten
I feel a responsibility to encourage everyone to excel in science.
~ Frances Arnold
We can't terraform yet, but we know it exists.
~ Ridley Scott
Wormholes don't exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence far beyond our own. Something would have to make one.
~ Jonathan Nolan
My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
~ George Andrew Olah
Faith requires a leap; otherwise, it just becomes science.
~ Zal Batmanglij
There will come an age when our average life expectancy will reach 200 years.
~ Masayoshi Son
It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.
~ Cory Doctorow
I'm not a model or an actress; I'm just a 23 year old who likes to talk about science. Why does what I look like matter so much?
~ Elise Andrew