- 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
- Cryptography
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.
- Family
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.
- Mystery
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.
- Looking
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I became aware of the very complex internal organization in a cell from the basic science classes, and it made me think about how all that could work. It seemed like a great mystery, especially how organelles in the cell can be arranged in three dimensions, and how thousands of proteins could find their way to the right location in the cells.
- Communication
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.
- Cannot
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
- Man
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I like the 'Science Channel,' the 'Discovery Channel,' I like 'Discovery Times,' which is a fabulous hybrid of the 'New York Times' and 'Discovery Channel.' Maybe I'm just an old man, but I like to watch that stuff.
- Economics
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science.
- Environment
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
- Middle
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Mad science is my middle name.
- Fossil
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
- Doing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can.
- God
- |
- Nov 07, 2020