David Andrew Sinclair Quotes

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

Science is always inquiring.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Science is facts.

Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Science is about unravelling nature.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Science is not gadgetry.

Scientist

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

Science is a quest for understanding.

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.

There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.

Science is about filling in the details.

The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.