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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
- Flags
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science doesn't have flags. Science doesn't have borders.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up until the wee hours to watch 'Outer Limits,' 'Night Gallery,' 'Twilight Zone,' and 'Star Trek.' We lived to watch those reruns.
- Baking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baking is both an art and a science.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father said I should become a doctor and do science in my spare time, which in retrospect might not have been a bad idea, but I wasn't interested in taking care of people's ills.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1950s, the average person saw science as something that solved problems. With the advent of nuclear weapons and pollution, the idealistic aura around scientific research has been replaced by cynicism.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illustrating is more about communicating specific ideas to a reader. Painting is more like pure science, more about the act of painting.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket science to understand the drivers of inequality.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.
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- Nov 07, 2020