Barry Barish Quotes

That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.

No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

I just try to stuff my brain with everything that I can read on what is going on in science at a very high level, and sometimes I see connections of what might need to be done.

I always wanted to be an experimental physicist and was attracted to the idea of using continuing advances in technology to carry out fundamental science experiments that could not be done otherwise.

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.

The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.

I believe in science. We're going to bring back science to the state of Wisconsin.

The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

Research in the natural sciences operates in successive approximations. We are glad to be able to offer many good problems for research by generations to come.

Science plays a huge role in our lives. We're surrounded by technology, we depend on it.

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.

We are all enormously indebted to the National Science Foundation of the United States and the American public for steady support over close to 50 years.

David Sainsbury has been good for science and good for innovation in the U.K. He has been an outstanding science minister and shown extraordinary passion and commitment to his portfolio.

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

There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts of the world and sometimes making amazing discoveries. The other is the role science plays in the public imagination - the powerful effect it has in shaping how millions of ordinary people see the world.

In the long run, curiosity-driven research just works better... Real breakthroughs come from people focusing on what they're excited about.

It is absolutely key that funding is used to support the best scientists with the best ideas.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is not good if it only tells you what just went on.

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.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.