- Economize
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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
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The evasion of justice within academia is all the more infuriating because the course of sexual harassment is so predictable. Since I started writing about women and science, my female colleagues have been moved to share their stories with me; my inbox is an inadvertent clearinghouse for unsolicited love notes.
- Plague
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, as you move to the upper ranks of science - ranks being positions of influence and access - you see fewer female faces. And I think the basic reason is the same reason that you don't see a lot of female faces in Congress or on the Supreme Court or on the directing board of Fortune 500 companies.
- Nov 07, 2020
A molecular gastronomist is really just someone who explores the world of science and food.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
- Disciplines
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of 'data science' as a flag that was planted at the intersection of several different disciplines that have not always existed in the same place. Statistics, computer science, domain expertise, and what I usually call 'hacking,' though I don't mean the 'evil' kind of hacking.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
Data science is the combination of analytics and the development of new algorithms.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deep learning allows you to create predictive models at a level of quality and sophistication that was previously out of reach. And so deep learning also enhances the product function of data science because it can generate new product opportunities.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
Data science requires having that cultural space to experiment and work on things that might fail.
- Organized
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- Nov 07, 2020