Science quotes

“- Dr. Malcolm Sayer: It was an immense project. I was to extract 1 decagram of myelin from 4 tons of earth worms.
- Dr. Sullivan: Really!
- Dr. Malcolm Sayer: Yes. I was on the project for 5 years. I was the only one who believed in it. Everyone else said it couldn't be done.
- Dr. Kaufman: It can't.
- Dr. Malcolm Sayer: I know that now. I...” (continue) (continue reading)
Robin Williams - Dr. Malcolm Sayer
John Christopher Jones - Dr. Sullivan
John Heard - Dr. Kaufman

“- Aitch: With this pill, they say you take it and that's it. Your hair don't grow, you don't go bald, it stays the same. You have your hair cut once, in whatever style you want, and it stays like that for the rest of your natural life. It's completely revolutionary.
- Jackie: What if you get fed up with your style, you berk?
- Aitch: Well,...” (continue) (continue reading)
Cavan Kendall - Aitch
Julianne White - Jackie

“While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.”
Kevin Spacey

“A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.”
Walter Lang

“In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the ninth configuration. But given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would have taken for just one of these protein molecules to appear entirely by chance? Roughly ten to the two hundred and...” (continue) (continue reading)
Stacy Keach - Col. Vincent Kane

“- Smith: I haven't seen anything and I don't need to see anything, sir, but I can tell you... this ship is fucked.
- Dr. Weir: Well, thank you for that scientific analysis, Mr. Smith.”

Sean Pertwee - Smith
Sam Neill - Dr. Weir

“In science fiction, you create your own reality.”
David Twohy

“Remember what happened to Galileo? They threw him in jail because he said the earth was not the center of the universe. That could happen to us.”
Donald Sutherland - Dr. Sid

“There are no enemies in science, only phenomena to be studied.”
Robert Cornthwaite - Dr. Arthur Carrington

“- Klaatu: You have faith, Professor Barnhardt?
- Barnhardt: It isn't faith that makes good science, Mr. Klaatu, it's curiosity. Sit down, please. There are several thousand questions I'd like to ask you.”
Michael Rennie - Klaatu
Sam Jaffe - Professor Jacob Barnhardt

“- Elwood P. Dowd: You see, science has overcome time and space. Well, Harvey has overcome not only time and space, but any objections.
- Dr. Chumley: Fly specks, fly specks! I've been spending my life among fly specks while miracles have been leaning on lampposts at 18th and Fairfax!”
James Stewart - Elwood P. Dowd
Cecil Kellaway - Dr. William Chumley

“I came for science. I'm leaving 'cause of witches. Welcome to the new dark ages!”
J.B. Smoove - Mr. Dell

“- Gus: I am told his product was more or less consistent with the quality I come to expect.
- Walter White: More or less? More or less, really? Wow. Boy this... Talk about setting the bar low. Except you don't do that, set the bar low. Therefore, what conclusion am I left to draw? That you believe I have some proprietary kind of selfishness...” (continue) (continue reading)

Giancarlo Esposito - Gustavo 'Gus' Fring
Bryan Cranston - Walter White

“Seurat confounds painting with science. He's lost himself in optical experiments. There's nothing more to expect from Renoir, Degas, Monet. They repeat themselves. They've given everything they could give.”
Oscar Isaac - Paul Gauguin

“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.”
Cherry Jones - Dr. Muldoon

“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.”
Ryan Gosling - Neil Armstrong

“I don't even know what hydrogen is.”
Winona Ryder - Myra Gale Brown

“Science is all about playing God. Sometimes God doesn't play so nice.”
Ed Harris - Leonard Dekkom

“Unknowingly I gave it a criminal brain. With your knowledge of science, you can cure that.”

Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Ghost of Henry Frankenstein

“- 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)
Logan Marshall-Green - Charlie Holloway
Noomi Rapace - Elizabeth Shaw

“- 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.”
Oscar Isaac - Nathan
Domhnall Gleeson - Caleb

“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.”
Daniel Kash - Dr. Dreyfuss

“I'm left with only one option, I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this.”
Matt Damon - Mark Watnay

“- 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.”
Russell Crowe - Dr. Henry Jekyll
Tom Cruise - Nick Morton

“I don't know why the sacrifice didn't work. The science was so solid.”
Sacha Baron Cohen - Julien