“While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.”
Science quotes
154 science quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.”
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“In science fiction, you create your own reality.”
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“I’m a religious woman, there’s no question, but I have also been to medical school. And, well, you can say that I hold science in one hand and God in the other, and that is not always an easy balance.”
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“I don't know what space exploration will uncover, but I don't think it'll be exploration just for the sake of exploration. I think it'll be more the fact that it allows us to see things. That maybe we should have seen a long time ago. But just haven't been able to until now.”
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“I don't even know what hydrogen is.”
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“Science is all about playing God. Sometimes God doesn't play so nice.”
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“- Charlie Holloway: I guess you can take your father’s cross off now.
- Elizabeth Shaw: Why would I wanna do that?
- Charlie Holloway: Because they made us.
- Elizabeth Shaw: And who made them?
- Charlie Holloway: Well, exactly. We’ll never know. But here’s what we do know. That there is nothing special about the creation of life. Right? Anybody...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“- Nathan: I understand that you want me to explain how Ava works, but I'm sorry. I'm not gonna be able to do that.
- Caleb: Try me. I'm hot on high-level abstraction.
- Nathan: It's not 'cause I think you're too dumb. It's 'cause I want to have a beer and a conversation with you, not a seminar.”
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“There is no rational explanation that supports this theory. But it is only the ability to embrace the different reality, that makes science expand beyond the limits of what we know.”
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“I'm left with only one option, I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this.”
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“- Dr. Henry Jekyll: It's not an exact science, this business.
- Nick Morton: What? And the business being?
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: Evil, Mr. Morton. Recognize, contain, examine, destroy.”
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“I don't know why the sacrifice didn't work. The science was so solid.”
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“- Gus: What's that thing called where they search for the uh... uh... DNA.
- Toula: A crime scene.
- Gus: No, no, where their families come from.
- Toula: Oh... the... find your ancestry site.”
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“If I can put that piece of the puzzle together, I can finally close the door on all this dinosaur nonsense, prove that that stuff never existed. Just a hodgepodge of different reptilian bones.”
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“Time travel made that guy a real asshole.”
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“It is the task of science to discover the truth. There is no shame attached to the recognition of error.”
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“- Harry Dalton: My 9th grade science teacher always said that if you put a frog in boiling hot water, it would jump out. But put it in cold water, and heat it up gradually, it would slowly boil to death.
- Nancy: What's that Harry? Your recipe for frog soup?
- Harry Dalton: It's my recipe for a disaster.”
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“The cornerstone of civilization isn't language, it's science.”
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“- Agent Kathrine Cowles: With all due respect, I don't hold an ounce of confidence in the paranormal as a field.
- John Clancy: No no, no problem at all. I feel the same about shrinks.” -
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“I never realized that the study of nature could advance the science of naval warfare.”
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“Inside every human, there's a dormant animal gene. This will return them to their rightful place in the animal kingdom!”
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“Jews and blacks were more like animals. And because they were just like animals it didn't matter if they lived or died.”
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