To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
I’m one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life.
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.
Economics has never been a science – and it is even less now than a few years ago.
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
But I don’t see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.
Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
It is not a Pandora’s box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
I always say, ‘Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.’
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
Something is wrong that we have to feed so many. Why should there be poverty with all of our science and technology? There is no deficit in human resources – it is a deficit in human will.
To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They’re all creative expressions.
One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we’re tackling these mysteries one by one. If you’re going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.
