Derek Barton Quotes

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

We are a society now that is 100 percent dependent on science.

I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.

To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.