Science Quotes

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

- A. J. Liebling

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

- Aaron Allston

Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.

- Aaron Ciechanover

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

- Aaron Klug

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

- Ada Lovelace

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

- Adam Cohen

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

- Adam Pascal

In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.

- Adam Peaty

Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.

- Adam Riess

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

- Adam Sandler

That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

- Adam Savage

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

- Adam Shankman

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

- Adam Smith

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

- Adam Smith

Having Ghost and Raekwon together on multiple tracks is almost like cheating because they fit so well together. Their chemistry is undeniable, and they clearly make each other better.

- Adrian Younge

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

- Ahmed Zewail

The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

- Ahmed Zewail

As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

- Ahmed Zewail

Genetics play a huge part in who we are. But we also have free will.

- Aidan Quinn

Carbon-carbon bond formation reactions are important processes in chemistry because they provide key steps in building complex, bio-active molecules developed as medicines and agrochemicals.

- Akira Suzuki

To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.

- Akira Suzuki

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

- Al Seckel

I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology and that energy cannot be destroyed, but can change. I don't know what the afterlife is going to be, but I'm not afraid of it.

- Alan Ball

The science of semiconducting and metallic polymers is inherently interdisciplinary; it falls at the intersection of chemistry and physics.

- Alan J. Heeger

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

- Alan Lightman

If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.

- Alan Lightman

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

- Alan Moore

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

- Alan Perlis

One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields as diverse as biology, geology, physics and astronomy is through classification.

- Alan Stern

I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto.

- Alan Stern

My field is called planetary science.

- Alan Stern

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

- Alan Turing

Alpha men are very turned on by the alpha woman, really high chemistry, really fun to work with, probably really fun to have affairs with, but there's not sustainable harmony in that lack of complement. There can only be one person in the driver's seat.

- Alanis Morissette

I'm not actually that bothered about the 'science fiction-ness' of 'Doctor Who.'

- Alastair Reynolds

I prioritise story over science, but not at the expense of being really stupid about it.

- Alastair Reynolds

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

- Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

- Albert Einstein

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

- Albert Einstein

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

- Albert Einstein

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

- Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

- Albert Einstein

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

- Albert Einstein

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

- Albert Einstein

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

- Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

- Albert Einstein

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

- Albert Einstein

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

- Alexander Payne

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

- Alexander Smith

A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

- Alfonso Cuaron

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

- Alfred Hitchcock

You know it's right when you feel this undeniable connection and chemistry.

- Ali Larter

It's important that the director and actor have good chemistry, and not just the actors.

- Alia Bhatt

Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.

- Alija Izetbegovic

With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.

- Alison Sweeney

The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.

- Alton Brown

Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.

- Alton Brown

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

- Alvin Toffler

I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.

- Amy Hempel

If I had to go back to school for anything, I'd go for astronomy.

- Anderson East

Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be.

- Andre Geim

What is important about graphene is the new physics it has delivered.

- Andre Geim

I would say there are three important things about graphene. It's two-dimensional, which is the best possible number for studying fundamental physics. The second thing is the quality of graphene, which stems from its extremely strong carbon-carbon bonds. And finally, the system is also metallic.

- Andre Geim

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

- Andrew Bird

My mother is a southern lady with short dark hair and a wary, blue-eyed smile. She is also an experimental chemist and teaches a college course entitled The Chemistry of Cooking.

- Andrew Sean Greer

I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

- Andrew Sean Greer

There's a certain point in chemistry and in calculus where I reached the end of my abilities, and I realized, 'This is where I'm stupid.'

- Andrew Sean Greer

I was glad I liked chemistry.

- Andy Grove

People's lives really do turn out differently. And it certainly can't be explained by how intelligent you remember them being when they were sitting next to you in organic chemistry class.

- Angela Duckworth

There's nothing colder than chemistry.

- Anita Loos

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

- Ann Leckie

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

- Ann Leckie

It's very hard to juggle a science fair project as well as your schoolwork.

- Ann Makosinski

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

- Ann McKee

It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible.

- Anne Wojcicki

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

- Annie Besant

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

- Anthony Fauci

You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.

- Anthony Fauci

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

- Anthony Fauci

Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors.

- Antonio Perez

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

- Antony Garrett Lisi

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

- Antony Hewish

I think Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen have a lot of chemistry between them.

- April Bowlby

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

- Ariel Rechtshaid

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

- Aristotle

Every character, for me, is a new discovery.

- Arjun Kapoor

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

- Arne Duncan

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

- Arnold H. Glasow

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

- Arthur C. Clarke

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

- Arthur Eddington

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

- Arthur Young

Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.

- Arvind Gupta

Biology is now accelerating at a pace faster than Moore's Law.

- Arvind Gupta

IndieBio's capital, facilities, and deep mentoring by a network of biotech-specific experts have the potential to spawn the Google, Facebook, and Instagrams of biology.

- Arvind Gupta

If two actors can communicate well during a scene, it works and makes for good chemistry.

- Ashish Sharma

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

- Ashley Montagu

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

- Ashley Montagu

The subject I was best at in school was biology.

- Astrid Berges-Frisbey

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

- Aubrey de Grey

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

- Auguste Comte

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

- Auguste Comte

To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.

- Auguste Comte

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

- Avery Brundage

I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.

- Barbara Block

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

- Baruj Benacerraf

As I had always said, it takes two people to work hard to create the chemistry.

- Barun Sobti

Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.

- Baz Luhrmann

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

- Bela Karolyi

'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.

- Ben Browder

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

- Ben Harper

Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.

- Ben Stein

Hitting is not an exact science.

- Ben Zobrist

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.

- Bennett Miller

Every film requires a different process. You learn about these particular actors and the particular chemistry between these actors. Recognizing when you don't need to shoot a scene because it's going to be cut anyway.

- Bennett Miller

I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.

- Benny Green

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.

- Benoit Mandelbrot

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

- Bernard Hopkins

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

- Bernard Marcus

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

- Bertolt Brecht

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

- Bertrand Russell

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

- Bill Bryson

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

- Bill Dana

Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

- Bill Foster

My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.

- Bill Foster

The amount of subtle and beautiful physics that's necessary to make a smartphone work is enormous.

- Bill Foster

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'

- Bill Gates

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

- Bill Gates

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

- Bill Nye

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

- Bill Nye

Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.

- Bill Nye

We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

- Bill Nye

Science rules!

- Bill Nye

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

- Billy Corgan

I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.

- Bjork

In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.

- Blake McIver Ewing

One thing that you can't fake is chemistry.

- Blake Shelton

I really liked working with Sean Paul; he is a very attractive guy, very hot. He was fun; the chemistry was really great, it was great to be in the moment.

- Blu Cantrell

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

- Bob Iger

Many of the top-grossing movies of all time are science fiction.

- Bonnie Hammer

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.

- Brad Pitt

What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.

- Brad Sherman

You can tell if someone's into you. You can feel the chemistry.

- Bradley Cooper

I don't read Science Fiction.

- Brent Spiner

Truthfully, we don't want my Weezer affiliation to have any bearing on whether someone likes us or not. It's an entirely different thing. The Space Twins have our own chemistry.

- Brian Bell

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

- Brian Greene

The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

- Brian Greene

Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. 'Where did the totality of reality come from?' 'Did time have a beginning?'

- Brian Greene

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

- Brian Greene

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

- Brian Greene

There's so much overlapping in science fiction.

- Brian Herbert

It's not clear in physics why you can't see the future.

- Brian Josephson

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

- Brian May

I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

- Brian May

Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.

- Brian Setzer

I got the genetics of - not to get into racism or anything - but I'm built like a black man.

- Brock Lesnar

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

- Bruce Feirstein

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

- Bryant H. McGill

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

- Burton Richter

Politics is a lot tougher than physics.

- Burton Richter

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.

- Buzz Aldrin

For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.

- Buzz Aldrin

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

- C. J. Cherryh

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

- Camille Paglia

You don't have money, you can't do science. But that's part of the price that I pay.

- Carl Hart

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

- Carl Jung

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

- Carl Sagan

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

- Carl Sagan

Sometimes every single element of a character is a torturous discovery.

- Carol Kane

If I had the science and math capabilities, I would have liked to be a vet, but I don't! I don't have those capabilities.

- Carol Kane

Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.

- Carol W. Greider

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

- Carrie Snow

Starting with 'Thirteen,' my known technique is to cast the lead, then find someone with whom they have incredible chemistry.

- Catherine Hardwicke

My mother ended up getting a Ph.D. of her own, in chemistry, and eventually became a tenured professor.

- Celeste Ng

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

- Chad Smith

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

- Charles B. Rangel

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

- Charles Babbage

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

- Charles Darwin

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

- Charles Edison

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.

- Charles Francis Richter

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

- Charles H. Townes

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.

- Charles Hazlewood

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

- Charles Kettering

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

- Charles Krauthammer

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

- Charles Lederer

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

- Charles Lindbergh

In my own house, I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know.

- Charles M. Schwab

Economics profession, they've been - they've been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade doesn't work in the next. Economics is a difficult subject.

- Charlie Munger

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

- Chauncey Wright

The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in.

- Chen-Ning Yang

Route running is an art, not a science.

- Chris Harris, Jr.

A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.

- Chris Martin

I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though I'm not by any means an expert, but I love reading about physics and math and that kind of stuff. I wish I knew more than I did. I mean, I read books written for laymen, not textbooks or anything.

- Chris Parnell

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Everything inspires me, but when it comes to chemistry, and when it comes to the ups and downs of relationships, that's what's real for people.

- Christina Milian

Lil Wayne and I are really close. We have a really close, personal relationship, and I really like him a lot. We have a great chemistry.

- Christina Milian

With Fleetwood Mac, it's an amazing chemistry that we have on stage.

- Christine McVie

Policy should always be rooted in unbiased science.

- Christine Todd Whitman

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

- Christopher McDougall

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

- Chuck Berry

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

- Claude Bernard

Science does not permit exceptions.

- Claude Bernard

Experimentation is an active science.

- Claude Bernard

Art is I; science is we.

- Claude Bernard

It's not rocket science. It's social science.

- Clement Mok

I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.

- Clive Granger

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

- Conor McGregor

Other than the laws of physics, rules have never really worked out for me.

- Craig Ferguson

I want to make a difference in the world because I believe that's what science is for.

- Craig Mello

We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness.

- Craig Venter

The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.

- Craig Venter

Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.

- Craig Venter

Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.

- Craig Venter

The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.

- Craig Venter

It's weird because I once lost a job because I had a chemistry read with the lead actor, and I could tell we had negative chemistry. He was very lovely, but you could tell. We had the chemistry of two chairs.

- Cristin Milioti

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology.

- Curtis Sittenfeld

I loved the idea that biology was logical.

- Cynthia Kenyon

I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

- Damian Woetzel

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

- Damon Knight

In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

- Damon Lindelof

The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.

- Dan Colen

I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

- Dan Gable

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

- Dana Carvey

Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

- Daniel Barenboim

Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.

- Daniel Dennett

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

- Daniel Dennett

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

- Daniel Dennett

Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

- Daniel H. Wilson

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

I was always good at math and science and physics.

- Daniel J. Evans

Singing and dancing have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of dopamine, the 'feel good' neurotransmitter.

- Daniel Levitin

I really want to take time and be in the moment with my kid for at least the first year. I know she's not going to remember that, but it's really for the family chemistry.

- Daniel Wu

The arts are what humanize science and history.

- Danny K. Davis

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

- Dave Eggers

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

- Dave Parnas

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

- David Brin

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

- David Chalmers

Cooking and gardening involve so many disciplines: math, chemistry, reading, history.

- David Chang

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

- David Christian

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

- David Crane

I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.

- David Duchovny

It's always a mystery when you're going into a role - 'Here's your wife of 40 years and... action!' How do you create ease or chemistry or whatever is supposed to exist?

- David Duchovny

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

- David E. Kelley

Astrobiology is the science of life in the universe. It's an attempt to scientifically deal with the question of whether or not we're alone in the universe, looking at the past of life, the present of life, and the future of life. It's an interdisciplinary study incorporating astronomy, biology, and the Earth sciences.

- David Grinspoon

Fixing global warming is more important than astronomy.

- David Grinspoon

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

- David Hilbert

The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.

- David Lee

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.

- David R. Brower

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

- David Russell

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

- David Sarnoff

Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

- David Walton

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

- Deepak Chopra

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

- Deepak Chopra

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

- Deepak Chopra

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

- Deepak Chopra

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

- Deepak Chopra

I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.

- Deepika Padukone

I believe chemistry is based on the trust between two performers. What actually works is something intangible - being extremely comfortable in each other's presence.

- Deepika Padukone

Science is what scientists do.

- Dennis Flanagan

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

- Dennis Rodman

The first serious applications were in triterpenoid chemistry.

- Derek Harold Richard Barton

We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.

- Dimitar Sasselov

In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.

- Dimitar Sasselov

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

- Dixie Lee Ray

I guess all bands get to that point where they run out of inspiration and just get bored with the chemistry.

- Dolores O'Riordan

If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.

- Domhnall Gleeson

Penn State is a leader in food science.

- Don Sherwood

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

- Donald Cram

To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

- Donald Cram

It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.

- Donald McCaig

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

- Donella Meadows

I say that, you know, it's a lifetime goal trying to teach organic chemistry, to make it easy, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to achieve it in my lifetime.

- Donna Nelson

I am the mild-mannered organic chemistry teacher at the University of Oklahoma.

- Donna Nelson

It is entirely possible to present science accurately and have a hit show.

- Donna Nelson

Hubris and science are incompatible.

- Douglas Preston

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

- Douglas Preston

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

- Duane G. Carey

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.

- Duane G. Carey

If I could be involved in the hunting and fishing industry, that would be amazing. That said, I studied biology in college and that led into me being really involved in anatomy and being a pre-med major.

- Dustin Lynch

With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.

- Dustin Lynch

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.

- Dylan O'Brien

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.

- E. O. Wilson

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

- E. O. Wilson

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

- E. O. Wilson

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

- E. O. Wilson

There is no better high than discovery.

- E. O. Wilson

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

- E. T. Bell

Leave the atom alone.

- E. Y. Harburg

Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

- Ed Greenwood

I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.

- Eddie Redmayne

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

- Edgar Allan Poe

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.

- Edmond Halley

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

- Edmund Hillary

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

- Edmund Husserl

Experience by itself is not science.

- Edmund Husserl

I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.

- Edmund Phelps

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

- Edward Abbey

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

- Edward Teller

Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.

- Edward Teller

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

- Edward Teller

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

- Edward Thorndike

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

- Edward Witten

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

- Edwin Land

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

- Edwin Powell Hubble

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

- Edwin Powell Hubble

As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors.

- Eileen Pollack

If a female student wants to drop a physics course, no one questions her, but if a male student tries to drop it, he will get pushback and encouraged to stay in, since he will need it later in life.

- Eileen Pollack

I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about. It just happens. It's like falling in love. You can't explain why you fall in love or explain why it's this particular person.

- Elaine Stritch

In the spring of 1959, I received an offer of a professorship at Harvard, which I accepted with alacrity since I wanted to be near my family and since the chemistry department at Harvard was unsurpassed.

- Elias James Corey

My doctoral work was completed by the end of 1950 and, at the age of twenty-two, I joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an instructor in chemistry under the distinguished chemists Roger Adams and Carl S. Marvel.

- Elias James Corey

Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.

- Elias James Corey

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

- Eliot Spitzer

My degree is in biology, and it will always be my first love. Evolution, ecology, genetics - they were the textbooks I was devouring as a teenager, and it was there that my love of science grew.

- Elise Andrew

I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science.

- Elizabeth Blackburn

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

- Elizabeth Blackburn

The genetics of autism are real, but there are also environmental triggers.

- Elizabeth Emken

We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.

- Elizabeth Esty

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

- Elizabeth Moon

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

- Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

- Elizabeth Moon

Genetics is where we come from. It's deeply natural to want to know.

- Ellen Ullman

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

- Elon Musk

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

- Elon Musk

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

- Elon Musk

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

- Elon Musk

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

- Elon Musk

It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.

- Emile Durkheim

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

- Emile M. Cioran

I want to make everyone believe that they can understand math and science.

- Emily Calandrelli

Being interested in science and engineering is not a male quality.

- Emily Calandrelli

I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.

- Emm Gryner

I'm a huge science fiction fan.

- Emma Caulfield

One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.

- Erez Lieberman Aiden

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

- Erez Lieberman Aiden

Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.

- Eric Betzig

The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.

- Eric Kandel

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular biology of memory led me to define the switch that converts short term to long term memory.

- Eric Kandel

There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.

- Eric Kandel

I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so much was that I liked the idea of bringing biology and psychology together.

- Eric Kandel

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

- Erich Fromm

The heart of science is measurement.

- Erik Brynjolfsson

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

- Ernest Rutherford

Politics is applied biology.

- Ernst Haeckel

Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.

- Ernst Mach

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

- Ernst Mach

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

- Erwin Chargaff

Of course I have other interests, but on the other hand, science is a lifestyle in the sense that it's a combination of profession and hobby.

- Erwin Neher

Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.

- Eva Herzigova

I think it's just a chemistry thing, feeling each other out. The more you play with each other, the better it's going to be.

- Ezekiel Elliott

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

- Ezra Taft Benson

We know there must be new physics. For example, we cannot explain what dark matter is.

- Fabiola Gianotti

Sometimes art helps illuminate science.

- Faith Salie

Sex is a discovery.

- Fannie Hurst

If someone has a fantastic biology background, he or she can contribute in AI and health care. AI has many aspects.

- Fei-Fei Li

I really believe there are no borders for science.

- Fei-Fei Li

I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.

- Felicity Jones

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

- Felix Bloch

Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

- Flea

There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.

- Forest Whitaker