Top 94 Interesting Science Quotes
#1. I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.
Bill Gates
#2. Since I was really little, I've just always had an obsession with, not just science fiction, but science and space. And also because as time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.
Moby
#3. First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.
Clive James
#4. The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.
Seth MacFarlane
#5. But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.
Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
#6. Interesting? The Science Channel is interesting ... the way you were looking at him was more like ... Wild Kingdom
S.C. Stephens
#7. 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
#8. Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.
Samuel R. Delany
#9. Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject ...
T. S. Eliot
#10. Science have imagination, most people doubt about that. This word "Doubt" makes a lot of stuff interesting.
Deyth Banger
#11. In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.
Christopher Langan
#12. Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts
some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
#13. There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.
Andrew Bird
#14. I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
Bill Bryson
#15. To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.
Jacob Bronowski
#16. Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.
Kent Beck
#17. It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.
Terry Pratchett
#18. I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.
Robert S. Mulliken
#19. Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.
Leonard Susskind
#20. Which diet is best for weight loss may not actually be the most interesting question we can ask, or try to answer, with regard to obesity.
Ignatius Brady
#21. I had a conversation with a biologist in an art gallery, and he persuaded me that it was possible to grow a dress from microbes. It was the craziest thing I had ever heard, but I'm a bit of a science fiction fan and I thought it sounded like an interesting challenge.
Suzanne Lee
#22. Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
Randy Newman
#23. It could be considered that science, as science, had failed the outer worlds. To be reaccepted it would have to present itself in another guise - and it has done just that. It works out beautifully." "Interesting!" The mayor placed his arms around his
Isaac Asimov
#24. I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.
China Mieville
#25. It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that the boundaries of special disciplines were not respected ... Trespassing is one of the most successful techniques in science.
Wolfgang Kohler
#26. The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism ... have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.
E. Haldeman-Julius
#27. Computer science ... jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer
or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.
Bill Gates
#28. I'm not a scientist. What I find interesting about my work is how, as a designer, I sit between science and the consumer and can see both a need and a solution.
Suzanne Lee
#29. All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.
Kurt Vonnegut
#30. Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them operate on you yet? I don't think so.
Michael Pollan
#32. I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
Frank Herbert
#33. Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off.
Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb)
Richard Dawkins
#34. Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
Linus Pauling
#35. What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.
Joe Rogan
#36. I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas.
Edward Einhorn
#37. I'm not a religious man ... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough.
Hugh Laurie
#38. Future generations will probably be able to enlighten us on this very interesting subject, and then science itself - with all due respect - may reach conclusions that are more or less in keeping with Christ's sayings about the other half of our life.
Vincent Van Gogh
#39. My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
Mae Whitman
#40. This looks interesting, I say, but what I'm really thinking is, Wow, Aimee, science fiction? Really, could you try any harder to brand yourself with the mark of the nerd herd? What's next, anime?
Tim Tharp
#41. Instead of being able to look at smaller interesting research projects, I am trying to see the links between all the research NASA does. For me, that's extremely fun because I get to go play and learn about areas of science that I know nothing about.
Ellen Stofan
#42. Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
#43. My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
#44. If the heuristic and analytic power of science can be joined with the introspective creativity of the humanities, human existence will rise to an infinitely more productive and interesting meaning.
Edward O. Wilson
#45. The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#46. Alex peered behind her to see Noah fussing over a scrape on Kennedy's cheek. "Unless someone's bleeding to death, first aid will have to wait. You'll want to strap into the jump seats.
"This could get interesting, and that's before we get clear of the station.
G.S. Jennsen
#47. Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.
Frederick Lenz
#48. Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.
Janna Levin
#49. The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.
Louis Kronenberger
#50. The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and exciting stuff in science fiction. I was inspired by that.
Lisa Tuttle
#51. I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.
Conor Oberst
#52. Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.
Gregory Benford
#53. I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That's what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.
Alan Alda
#54. Nanotechnology is really interesting to me. Stuff to sort of make our world a better place, and a cleaner place, through science. And it also explains things that are happening. I've always been into it.
Jessica Alba
#55. I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.
Jaron Lanier
#56. I liked all of my science classes from biology to chemistry. I thought dissecting was one of the most interesting parts of it.
Arnaz Battle
#57. There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.
Richard P. Feynman
#58. But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting.
Julian Coolidge
#59. As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.
Paul Dirac
#60. I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.
George Eads
#61. Mundane, boring stories
not interesting ones
are the ideal in an operating room.
Wolf Pascoe
#62. The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#63. The four stages of acceptance:
1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
3. This is true, but quite unimportant.
4. I always said so."
(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)
J.B.S. Haldane
#64. Nutrition science, which after all only got started less than two hundred years ago, is today approximately where surgery was in the year 1650 - very promising, and very interesting to watch, but are you ready to let them operate on you? I think I'll wait awhile.
Michael Pollan
#65. I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.
Sam Harris
#66. As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.
Bertrand Russell
#67. 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
#68. The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it is in many other respects extremely interesting.
Thomas Young
#69. The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
#70. The meeting of science and art is definitely interesting for the 21st century, and I think to use scientific expertise and knowledge to preserve an artistic statement is very interesting. It takes things a step further.
Marc Quinn
#71. Well, isn't that interesting. (Bubba)
I ain't your science experiment, Bubba. I don't want to be interesting and I definitely don't want to be a nubby treat for the zombies. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#72. I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.
Simon Winchester
#73. Science is interesting... Albert Eistein has said that he believe in religion, and he has said "Science without a religion is nothing and the reverse...", but now some people say that he has said and that he doesn't believe in religion and in god!? (That's call reverse...)
Deyth Banger
#74. I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.
Ellen Ochoa
#75. I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.
Joseph Conrad
#76. It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
Rollo May
#77. When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'
George Lucas
#78. The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
Harold Urey
#79. Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline ... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers.
Stephen Jay Gould
#80. The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.
Paul Allen
#81. If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . .
John Gribbin
#82. We live of novelty in science. So when you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that it cannot be done, that it's not interesting and so on.
Heinrich Rohrer
#83. I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more interesting, it seems a shame to sort of re-live something in half-measures.
Jamie Bamber
#84. It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction is almost more reputable, I guess, at least a step up from poor superheroes.
Brian K. Vaughan
#85. If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.
Rand Miller
#86. I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction.
DJ Spooky
#87. Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.
Vannevar Bush
#88. I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.
Aaron Klug
#89. I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
Patricia Cornwell
#90. It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.
Richard Dawkins
#91. Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about science fiction.
The Killer Hook.
Michael Chabon
#92. The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.
Lisa Randall
#93. Everything is energy. It's physics. So I find the science of it all interesting; how 90% of stuff that's in our universe is made of stuff that we can't even measure. I find that fascinating.
Erin Davie
#94. So far as education is concerned, it has had a significant impact on a lot of young people who turn to science as a much more exciting and interesting study than they otherwise might have found, entirely as a result of becoming involved with Star Trek.
Patrick Stewart
