Science Quotes

"We were building the foundation of computer science."

"Cryptography is about the math of trust."

"Intelligence is the universe's way of understanding itself."

"The laws of physics are the ultimate algorithm."

"Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations."

"AI is not magic. It is just math and data."

"It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work."

"For me, the discovery of aquaporins was like a gift after 25 years in basic science."

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

"We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism."

"The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice."

"I really wanted to be veterinarian, but I got a 410 on my math SATs."

"A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input."

"The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind."

"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."

"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property."

"The universe is a great mystery."

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."

"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent."

"We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology."

"We are now solving problems with machine learning and artificial intelligence that were in the realm of science fiction for the last several decades."

"Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men."

"We are building the metaverse, a digital universe that will define the next phase of human interaction."

"Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world."

"In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues."

"It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science."

"I don't know if 'Crash' is a good movie or not because I didn't set out to make a movie. Really, what I wanted to do is more of a social experiment."

"The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe."

"The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it."

"The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers."

"Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract."

"But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to which time, regarded as a series of mutually exclusive moments, is nothing and does nothing."

"Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."

"If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well."

"For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative."

"At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics."

"Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes."

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."

"A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant."

"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."

"The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points."

"I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day."

"Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy."

"Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation."

"Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique."

"I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and the product. I'm choosing to be a part of this system, thus I'm choosing to be part of the conditions that are set in this system."

"Writing science fiction for about a penny a word is no way to make a living. If you really want to make a million, the quickest way is to start your own religion."

"'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution."

"I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not."