Why are we here? What is our purpose? Is there an afterlife? Is there a God? Is it all about science? Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.

Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

I just read the scripts that come to me, and I see the ones which I really kind of understand and connect with, whether that's a science fiction or a period piece. It doesn't really matter as long as...

I think the days of the climate deniers are over. To deny basic science is to risk the trust of the general public.

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most...

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.

I've always, since I was a kid, been interested in how things work.

I believe there is true expertise in some endeavors, and not in others. There is obviously no such thing as expertise in predicting the results of coin tosses, but there is expertise in predicting the...

Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science, and medicine.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a...

Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.

Physical studies of DNA had, of course, been under way for some years before analysis of virus particles began.

I'm very aware of modern countryside issues, such as rewilding: how, as science progresses, we begin to understand that a healthy ecosystem is multiform.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our lives very much.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

What skills I lacked in, say, math or science, I like to think I made up for in my ability to read people and situations with great clarity. I therefore considered myself as a sort of valued...

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.