- 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
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The stories that engaged me as a kid were all science fiction. Later, it turned out that I didn't have the language to talk about what was bothering me in a way that was straightforward.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown. Some of those are productive; some can be attempts to pin down things that are by nature impossible to know.
- Corresponding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work at a non-profit called ALS Worldwide, where we work with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) patients and families. It is often heavy work, but I'm grateful to be able to contribute to the ALS community. I'm constantly learning about science and medicine, and I have the honor of corresponding with patients throughout the world.
- Geek
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people have a concentration in particular areas; it might be politics, it might be science, it might be business, it might be sports. I care about all of those, and that's why I've chosen the formats I chose.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.
- Far Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020