Science Quotes

To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of bullshit.

Wonder is the mother of all science.

Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.

I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid – usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.