Charles Jules Henry Nicole Quotes

I'm a firm believer in science.

Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of far-flung parents who may never meet.

You hear a lot of scientists say the same thing. It doesn't have to be a big thing because the thing about being a scientist is even the little things are big things to us.

What might we learn from lines of research that are off the beaten track? They check accepted ideas, always a good thing, and there is the chance nature has prepared yet another surprise for us.

Pennsylvania has some of the best science in the world.

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

Federal research is vital to the innovation that drives our local economy and global competitiveness.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is not good if it only tells you what just went on.

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. There's the moment when you know you can find out the answer and that's the period you are sleepless before you know what it is. When you've got it and know what it is, then you can rest easy.

It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

Science demands patience.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the shelf doing what we wanted, we were forced to construct it. And the original experiment ... developed into a method for the production of hybridomas ... [which] was of more importance than our original purpose.

I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.

I think that it's good for us to be able to travel in space and do research in space, and I emphasize the research, because space travel to me is far more than just seeing how far we can go.