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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
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
- Contribution
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.
- Entire Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020