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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• 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 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

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

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Science
  • Small
  • Effort

• 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

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

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Movie
  • Science

• 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

• I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

  

  Eric Betzig
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Science

• '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.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Up
  • Time
  • Science

• I've had the chance to work with Christopher Plummer, one of the great stage and film actors, a couple of times, including on 'Prototype,' the first TV movie I ever did. It was science fiction in the Ray Bradbury sense, written by the famous team who created Columbo, Levinson, and Link.

  

  David Morse
  • Work
  • Great
  • Movie

• I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

  

  James Dyson
  • People
  • Good
  • Science

• I'm weird: I like science and math but also like English as well.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Science
  • English
  • Weird

• An important task for government is to think about the future as well as to learn from the past, and the Foresight Programme, run by the Government Office for Science, helps in the development of this thinking.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Future

• TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Science
  • Education
  • Serious

• Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Imagine

• The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Waiting
  • Green
  • Street

• And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Life
  • Love
  • Spirit

• The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Together
  • Drama
  • Famous

• 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