Quotes About Science

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but 'That's funny...?

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realise how often they burst into flames

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Women make up only 25 percent of the science, engineering and technology workforce... We are delighted to be working with NASA Ames to give Silicon Valley area girls a chance to explore and develop their potential in science at an age when many begin to drift away from their natural interest.

The suburban housewife -- she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife -- freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.

The University of Ilinois has hired 15 women to smell pig manure all day so that researchers can find out what makes pig manure smell so bad. You know who I feel sorry for? The woman who applied for this job and got turned down.

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

What is love? In English, a language; In Math, a problem; In History, a war; In Geography, a mountain; In Chemistry, a reaction and in a painting, a heart.