Science Literacy Quotes

#1. Science literacy consists in the ability and the desire to follow reports of new scientific advances, throughout your whole life.

Philip Kitcher

#2. Science literacy is less about what you know and more about how your brain is wired for asking questions.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#4. Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when we need to be. All the buzz today is on the need for science literacy. That is on the agenda in ways it hasn't been in previous decades.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.

James Murdoch

#9. Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#10. Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#11. Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasseled flower.

George Eliot

#12. I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

Esther Rolle

#13. My career is just kind of crazy.

David Spade

#14. Most men go to their graves with their dreams still inside them

Zig Ziglar

#15. If I had my choice, every high school would be teaching financial literacy along with math and science.

Gregory Meeks

#16. This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.

Frederick Lenz

#17. I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage.

Bill Hader

#18. I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

David James Duncan

#19. We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#20. Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact ...

Charles Babbage

#21. Yesterday, all this was snow. Always winter, and never Christmas.

Neil Gaiman

#22. I guess you don't have to be related by blood to love someone as a family member." I stared at him, my eyes blazing. "Sometimes they worm their way into your heart and they become a part of you. And when someone becomes a part of you, they automatically become your family.

J.S. Cooper

#23. Religion is opium for the masses

Nikos Kazantzakis

#24. They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel.

Dennis Miller

#25. We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological literacy is important for security, as well.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#26. Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

Bernhard Schlink

#27. We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#28. Santi and Wolfe exchanged a look. Wolfe inclined his head a little to the side, with a strange, crooked smile. "You see? They're as bad as we are."
"Worse," Santi sighed.

Rachel Caine

#29. Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

Robert A. Heinlein

#30. You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?

Wally Lamb

#31. I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

Tony Curtis

#32. Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#33. As my sister used to eloquently put it, our mother wore sweaters so we could wear coats.

Wes Moore

#34. To be scientifically illiterate is to remain essentially uncultured. And the chief virtue of a cultural activity
be it art, music, literature, or science
is the way it enriches our lives.

Lawrence M. Krauss