Scientific Processes Quotes

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on 'Discover.'

Science class is traditionally taught as science history class - you learn all these facts that someone else discovered, which you need to know, but that's not really an inspiring way to learn science.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.

Whatever happens to science in schools, there's something peculiar going on if students don't see it as creative.

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.

I was a terrible science student, and for a long time, I thought I just didn't understand science. It turned out that I didn't understand post-Newtonian science. I could actually understand how people thought scientifically about the world in the past.