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Science Quotes
Science taken seriously, and occasionally not.
Most of these quotes come from people genuinely engaged with science, recalling museum trips that sparked early curiosity and admiring mathematics for tackling problems that actually have solutions. For quotes on scientific humor specifically, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.
- Dualism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of faith expressed by scientists about science. It's kind of an act of faith that science is a good thing. We don't know that for sure. We may not know that millions of years from now.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people are excited about themselves. Personal genome will deliver for inexpensively something about science to which you can relate. Just like computers are becoming something to which you can relate. It should be even easier to relate to your own biology, and I hope that will be one of the ways we get broader literacy in science.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my lab, we are constantly asking, 'What's the utility of this pure science that we're doing? Let's nudge it a little bit in a direction where people can connect to it and have some fun and/or help some very serious problems they have.'
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of science is the questioning of authority, absolute freedom of ideology. The Soviets did some very good science, but when science ran into ideology, it had trouble. Science flourishes best in a democracy.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science has the potential to solve all kinds of problems, but it depends on what a society wants to accomplish.
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- Nov 07, 2020