Science Quotes

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!

The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics

The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I am next..." - I AM NUMBER FOUR

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

Vampires are people too!

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

Never tell a computer to forget it.

Don't pick up hitchhikers!"- D. Adams

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.

A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions.

Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science.

It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than for occupying the mind of a philosopher.

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.