- 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
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.
- Nov 07, 2020
The indisputable fact is that nutritional science is the most powerful weapon available to win the war on cancer.
- Nov 07, 2020
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.
- Distinguished
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to Professor Antony Hewish and Professor Martin Ryle. At the time, science was still perceived as being carried out by distinguished men.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020