- Emphasize
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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
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.
- Climate Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.
- Gases
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.
- Gamer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not of a science background, I was never a comic book geek, and I was never a gamer.
- Departments
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience in science has always been that the future always exceeds what we believe is possible. I suspect that we will explore the universe.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.
- Predict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020