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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

My Life
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Nov 07, 2020

Including my nine years as a student, the majority of my life has been at Hokkaido University. After my retirement from the university in 1994, I served at two private universities in Okayama Prefecture - Okayama University of Science and Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts - before retiring from university work in 2002.

Quotes by Akira Suzuki

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.

Quotes by Aisha Tyler

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.

Quotes by Aisha Tyler

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

Quotes by Ahmet Zappa

Work
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Nov 07, 2020

So many people I talk to who work in technology, you ask them, 'What got you interested in science?' and those from my generation say, 'The Apollo landings.'

Look
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Nov 07, 2020

I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington in Seattle and become an engineer. But by the time I was seventeen, I was ready to leave home, a decision my parents agreed to support if I could obtain a scholarship. MIT did not grant me one, but the University of Chicago did.

Nov 07, 2020

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

Art
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Nov 07, 2020

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

Meditation
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Nov 07, 2020

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

Nov 07, 2020

We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

Nov 07, 2020

Private equity is a science project for many, many years, and when you have a science project, it leaves the human beings as a secondary fact.

Nov 07, 2020

Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.

Nov 07, 2020

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

Nov 07, 2020

All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

Nov 07, 2020

If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.

Nov 07, 2020

I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.

Nov 07, 2020

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

The set ends on a lighter note, joking that gravity is manageable but the paperwork around it is not. Readers can also browse Riddles for playful science puzzles, or Doctor quotes for an adjacent field.

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