Ashoke Sen Quotes
The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
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I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.
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The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.
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All natural philosophers, who wished to proceed mathematically in their work, have hence invariably (although unknown to themselves) made use of metaphysical principles, and must make use of such, it matters not how energetically they may otherwise repudiate any claim of metaphysics on their science.
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Science is international but its success is based on institutions, which are owned by nations. If therefore, we wish to promote culture we have to combine and to organize institutions with our own power and means.
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We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.
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It's not rocket science to make a movie.
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Too many younger people seem to prefer following celebrities instead of doing the work required to get an education that will someday lead to a job. If students today spent as much time on math and science and history as they do following these shallow celebrities, they might actually become contributors to society someday.
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There are cases when it takes 50 or 100 years for fundamental science to achieve results.
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As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.
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One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
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A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.
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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
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For me there’s no good or bad, as long as I’m feeling everything to the greatest degree, whether it’s sadness or happiness.
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The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.
