Science Quotes

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

Sometimes little things can prolong an experience in a way that you run over budget. It's very scientific; a lot of people don't understand the science that goes behind making a film.

I would cancel dialysis to be in the [hopefully upcoming Firefly] movie.

I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.

Two lines must meet at a point. Therefore there are only two surprises here.

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.

I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time.

Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn’t change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right?

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This is terrifying news to cows.

The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant.

Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

The past is another planet.

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd.

Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other.

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment.

What's up with chicks and science?

Deep in the world of atomic nuclei, life is not always tranquil.

I didn't even know there were stars to look at to not see. If you don't know that they're there, you don't know that you're missing them.

For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling.

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

The iron from that meteorite and the iron from your blood have common origin in the core of a star.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

We need more science in the world. Train me.

Science reveals that all life on Earth is one.

The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.

Not everyone is going to like science as a subject.

Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet.

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses.

The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility.

I'm a little fatigued of adults saying we've got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don't know science and are running things and wielding resources and legislation.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science.

If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.

Science is not just a topic we can step around or ignore.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

I'm just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread.

All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.

It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.