Quotes of: Asimov Keyword

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.

Paul D. Boyer

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.

Peter D. Mitchell

I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot.

Paul Nurse

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

Kary Mullis

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.

Michael Behe

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

Randy Schekman

The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.

Sidney Altman

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Mark Twain

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.

Richard Dawkins

One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Randy Schekman

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Frederick Sanger

The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.

Paul D. Boyer

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein

You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Randy Schekman

My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

Cory Doctorow

RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.

Craig Mello

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

Daniel Nathans

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

James Rothman