Quotes About Science

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.

There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.