- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.
- Charter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
- Prepared
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- Nov 07, 2020
Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run, they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end, the community will come around.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do we encourage a lot more girls to pursue science, technology, and engineering careers? By casting droves of women in STEM jobs today in movies and on TV.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020