Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Science Quotes
MythsReligionScienceUnderstanding I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill.
ApplicationDiscoveryProgressScienceUncertainty As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.
BooksGeneticsInterestScience I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
ExplorationInnovationPowerProgressScience Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
Science Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.
EngineeringMedicinePhysicsScienceTechnology Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.
Human IngenuityInfluencePivotal EraProgressScience Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
DiscoveryInnovationNatureResearchScience I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me.
EducationInnovationProblem SolvingScience Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.
EconomyInnovationProgressScienceTechnology The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.
AstronomyCosmic PhenomenaCuriosityDestructionScience I'm fascinated by the deaths of stars and the havoc they wreak on their environments.
ArtEducationKnowledgePhilosophyScience A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
DevelopmentFutureHappinessScienceTechnology Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.
ConflictJusticePeaceScienceWar Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
EconomicsKnowledgeLaborScienceValue The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
CosmologyInfinityPerspectiveScienceUniqueness Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes.
EnergyRelationshipScienceStartups I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.
CultureInfluenceInterconnectionPracticesScience Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
CreativityImaginationInnovationReevaluationScience To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
ConfidenceEqualityHumilityScienceWisdom I don't care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don't have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.
AtomsDiscoveryHuman BodyKnowledgeScience Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
DiscoveryFrontiersKnowledgeReligionScience So the history of discovery, particularly cosmic discovery, but discovery in general, scientific discovery, is one where at any given moment, there's a frontier. And there tends to be an urge for people, especially religious people, to assert that across that boundary, into the unknown, lies the handiwork of God. This shows up a lot.
EthicsEvolutionGeneticsScienceSociety The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
AccuracyPhysicsPredictionProfessionScience Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.
IndividualismInnovationResilienceScienceSystem Critique People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.
