Steven Squyres Quotes

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

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• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Absolute

• I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Think
  • Science
  • Loved

• Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Science
  • Popular

• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Myself
  • Mistake

• We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Support

• Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • May
  • Book
  • Science

• 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
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Science
  • Powerful
  • Engineering

• Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • People
  • Mind
  • Science

• My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Art
  • Science
  • Desire

• 'Confederate,' in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It's a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction is that it can show us how this history is still with us in a way no strictly realistic drama ever could, whether it were a historical drama or a contemporary drama.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • History
  • Science
  • Drama

• By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • May
  • Science
  • Principles

• Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Science
  • Giving
  • Body

• Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science

• Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. Freedom of inquiry must be preserved under any plan for Government support of science...

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Science
  • Free
  • Freedom

• The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Science
  • Study

• Ancient science had sought knowledge of what things are, to be contemplated as an end in itself satisfying to the knower. In contrast, modern science seeks knowledge of how things work, to be used as a means for the relief and comfort of all humanity, knowers and non-knowers alike.

  

  Leon Kass
  • Work
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Science is based solely on doubt-based, disinterested examination of the natural and physical world. It is entirely independent of personal belief. There is a very important, fundamental concomitant - that is to accept absolutely nothing whatsoever, for which there is no evidence, as having any fundamental validity.

  

  Harry Kroto
  • Science
  • Physical World
  • Personal belief

• I love doing comic roles and believe I am best at it.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Believe

• I've always loved being a student.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen

• Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Father

• That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

  

  Steven Squyres
  • Science
  • Figures