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 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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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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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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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.
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I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.
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I'm a science guy. I'm a geek. I love geology and botany and marine science. I thought maybe I'd be a professional guide, or maybe even a park ranger, working for the Department of Fish and Game.
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'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic.
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Scientific progress is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity... The previous successes give us confidence in the future of science: we become more and more conscious of the fact that the universe is cognizable.
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I don't really know and I don't care what I'm worth.
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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
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Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.
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Sweet cherry wine, so very fine, take it on down, pass it all around.
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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.
