Carol W. Greider Quotes

It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

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

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

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 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.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

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.

I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the world a better place.

Who does science determines what science gets done.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.

Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe... We are living in a wonderland age of science.

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

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

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

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.

As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.