- 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
- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.
- Dissecting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two things I enjoy most about my work. First, I get to work with interesting and enthusiastic people who are also fired up about science. Second, every once in a while I have moments in which I suddenly understand the solution to a problem that I've been working on - those are great moments.
- Harmoniously
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- Nov 07, 2020
The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.
- Connection
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot study other planets without referring to Earth and without applying the techniques and the insights of Earth science. And you cannot really do a good job understanding the Earth without the insights from planetary exploration.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we gutted NASA Earth Science, it wouldn't be NOAA or some other agency that would take the lead. It would be the Chinese and the Europeans and the Japanese.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020