Louis Agassiz Quotes

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

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

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.

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

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

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.

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.

Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

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

It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt.

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.

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

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

Public sharing is an important part 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.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you'll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that.

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

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

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.

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