Scientist Quotes

We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.
Antarctica is a paradise compared to Mars.
Far from feeling dwarfed by the vast reaches and energy of the cosmos, what we really learn is that we are the most remarkable and complicated product of cosmic evolution, and our potential is unlimited.
Getting to work at Lick was like being touched by the wand of your fairy godmother.
Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.
Hubble has established for the first time that the distant universe looks different from the nearby universe.
Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.
Hubble is unique. Nothing else can do what it can do. Once it's gone, we're going to be paralyzed.
I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning and excellence in the classroom.
I graduated from high school in 1962.
I have great respect for the special nature of Mauna Kea and profound regard for Hawaii's culture, environment, and people.
I remember spending evenings looking at the sky with my dad, who was interested. He was a civil engineer and was interested in science as a kid. And he always encouraged me.
I take comfort in the fact that it is a beautiful universe, and we belong here and that we fit. This is our home.
I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature of time and space and where we all came from. It's the most amazing detective story in history.
I was a tomboy through and through; I hated dresses and was personally miffed that I couldn't join the Little League team.
I was born in Boston, but I moved to Cleveland when I was three.
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