#science

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#careers #complete #contemplated #drudgery #experiments

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#child #get #incentive #kids #left

It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects. ↗

— Michael O'Donoghue

#anything #began #cockroach #desire #done

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared. ↗

— Barack Obama

#argument #because #clearly #country #day

I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#education #engineering #gets #good #good education

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#calculus #college #continue #encouraged #go

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#came #college #i #interest #later

We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep. ↗

— Carl von Ossietzky

#asleep #cannot #conscience #our #own

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. ↗

— Paracelsus

#art #before #compounding #consist #deals

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#banner #conscience #demands #external #freedom