“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.”
Science is the long, slow process of replacing "I believe" with "I know." These quotes explore discovery, curiosity, the scientific method, and the awe that comes from understanding even a small piece of how the universe actually works.
“I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.”
“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.”
“Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.”
“I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.”
“When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.”
“Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.”
“Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.”
“The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.”
“I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.”
“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.”
“Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.”
“Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.”
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
“It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.”
“I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.”
“We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.”