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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
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas, they are usually wrong, and we test them against the data. Scientists do this in a formal way. It's a way that everyone can go through life; that's how we should be teaching science from a very young age.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't realize how many aspects of our lives are touched in one way or another by not just the discoveries, the technological breakthroughs, but the process of science.
- Single
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all science fiction, which has some similarities to YA.
- Black Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once wrote that the first week in Jerusalem was the hardest week of my life. I was different, other; my clothes were different, as was my language. All of the classes were in Hebrew - science, bible, literature. I sat there not understanding one word. When I tried to speak, everyone would laugh at me.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1978, I entered the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I would have loved to study videogame programming, but nobody was teaching it then. So I went to classes on engineering and early computer science.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020