- 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.
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- Healing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a natural scientist, a publication the journal Science carries enormous prestige.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
- Glorifying
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that's how I put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020