Alice Roberts Quotes

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation.

Science is the only savior.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

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.

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

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual discipline of the subject. It is due simply to the fact that power, wealth and prestige can only be obtained by the correct application of science.

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.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

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 thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.

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

Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.

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

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.

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

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