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Science Journalist Inspirational Quotes (50)

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These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
Ben Goldacre
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Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence.
Ben Goldacre
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Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.
Natalie Angier
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The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle’s diameter into its circumference.
Richard Preston
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The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
William Broad
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In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.
Richard Preston
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The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.
Natalie Angier
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The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
Richard Preston
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Who needs a handgun when you've got a semiautomatic?
Natalie Angier
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scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.
Natalie Angier
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Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.
Ben Goldacre
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Transparency and detail are everything in science.
Ben Goldacre
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Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.
Ben Goldacre
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We are made of stardust why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?
Natalie Angier
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Surveys show that surveys never lie.
Natalie Angier
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The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment.
Ben Goldacre
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The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.
Natalie Angier
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Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
Ben Goldacre
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There are many differences between medicine and teaching, but they have much in common. Both involve craft and personal expertise, learned through experience but both can be informed by the experience of others.
Ben Goldacre
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He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.
Richard Preston
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You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.
Richard Preston
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As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.
Ben Goldacre
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When I wrote a long story about the retreat of sea ice, I made clear it could go the other way for a while, and that doesn't mean we don't know that a warmer world will have less sea ice. It just means there's a lot of variability and people can pay too much attention to the big swings in one direction or the other.
Andrew Revkin
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We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a way through here that won't lead to utter calamity.
Andrew Revkin
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