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Quotes About Science

If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.
~ Drew Endy
I would argue that we're not limited by actual DNA. You can re-create the ancient DNA by looking at the genomes of existing animals.
~ George M. Church
I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.
~ Rita Dove
When I was a little kid, I always wanted to be an oceanographer.
~ Vinnie Paul
Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.
~ Philip K. Dick
The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The undevout astronomer must be mad.
~ William Herschel
I want to make a difference in the world because I believe that's what science is for.
~ Craig Mello
I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.
~ Ann McKee
It's great that people are interested in Mars.
~ Jack Schmitt
As far as whether there is life there on Mars or whether there was actually ever life there, I don't know. It would be great to find out, though.
~ Scott Kelly
I think we know how to do Mars.
~ Mae Jemison
There should be a water table on Mars.
~ Heidi Hammel
people will treat with disdain such phenomena as are proved by the evidence of the senses, and commonly experienced—while they will defend to the death the reality of a phenomenon which they have neither seen nor experienced. "Faith is as powerful a force as science," he concluded, voice soft in the darkness
~ Diana Gabaldon
College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name—he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse.
~ Diana Palmer
In this world people are used to doing by magic what we do by science.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
THE OLD LAB was not used for anything much except detention. But there was still a faint smell of old science clinging to it, from generations of experiments which had gone wrong.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.
~ Diane Ackerman
Antonina wondered if humans might use the same metaphor and picture the war days as a sort of hibernation of the spirit, when ideas, knowledge, science, enthusiasm for work, understanding, and love—all accumulate inside, [where] nobody can take them from us. Of
~ Diane Ackerman
In September 2013, the panel of 209 lead authors and 600 contributing authors, from 39 nations, poring over 9,200 scientific publications, came to these landmark conclusions: global warming is "unequivocal," sea levels are rising, ice packs are melting, and if we continue at this pace we "will cause further warming and changes in all components of the climate." However, they added, we can slow the process down if we begin at once.
~ Diane Ackerman
Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.
~ Diane Duane
Not even Spock had stayed aboard for that—he found breathing vacuum for any length of time to be aesthetically unpleasant.
~ Diane Duane
Jim chuckled. "All right. Listen, can you get me an uplink to the ship from there? I want a look at the BBS." Spock thought a moment. "That should be no problem. Wait a moment." His fingers danced over the keys. McCoy
~ Diane Duane
The laws of life and death, as she had learned them, were incomplete. There was more to life, more to death, than medical science had known.
~ Diane Setterfield