Quotes about "Science & Discovery"

I am as non-accepting of medical quackery and unscientific approaches as anybody else. I've grown up as a card-carrying scientist, and I know the power of science to answer questions, and for many questions I don't know of anything better than scientific approaches to answer them. ”

A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful. ”

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression. ”

Unlike running on a road or concrete, natural surfaces are more forgiving and offer a more varied terrain, ultimately resulting in less repetitive micro-trauma to bones and joints than running on hard pavement does. ”

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. ”

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional. ”

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. ”

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work. ”

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources. ”

We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. ”