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.

Ashoke Sen

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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.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Together
  • Science
  • Myself

• 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

• I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Life
  • Science
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Imagine
  • Loved
  • Kid

• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Looking

• 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.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• 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.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Future
  • Science

• The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Science
  • Small
  • Effort

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

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • May
  • Science
  • Principles

• 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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Technology

• 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.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Work
  • May
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Success
  • Science
  • Culture

• 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.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Life
  • Science
  • Earth

• It's not rocket science to make a movie.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Movie
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• There are cases when it takes 50 or 100 years for fundamental science to achieve results.

  

  Masatoshi Koshiba
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Science

• One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Political

• I'm just interested in science, and I try to keep track of what's going on and get my head around it - inflation, the multiverse, whatever. It's very hard for me because I don't have a scientific background, and I wasn't any good at science at school, but all of that stuff I just find incredibly attractive and fascinating.

  

  Alex Garland
  • Good
  • School
  • Science

• I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Positive
  • Jump

• I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hair
  • Years
  • Short

• I respect Floyd as a fighter but come 5 May, he's going to be hurting for weeks.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • May
  • Respect

• I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Career

• The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.

  

  Ashoke Sen
  • Science
  • Imagine
  • Prove