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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
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.
- Concern
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels - the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming - has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism.
- Fanatical
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
You should only go into science if you really have a yearning to make scientific discoveries.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is not the glamour that's portrayed in films. It's a lot of drudgery work, along with the wonderfully exciting periods when you discover something.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.
- Devote
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- Nov 07, 2020