Scientific Tools Quotes

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.

There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Unlike optogenetics, where there are existing nonprofits that give away the DNA for free or at cost, expansion microscopy requires chemicals to be used, so having a company that makes the chemistry kit that anybody can use can save time.

Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

We can use all the scientific tools, but it will never replace the palate or the talent of the chefs who are in the kitchen.