Science Quotes

Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.

Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Science is taught like the history of science, and it's boring. Doing science fair, anything that's project-based learning, that involves field trips, that's really valuable.

There is no contradiction between true religion and science

People love science and all it offers, but they also feel a calling in themselves to the sense of what's deeper.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

I do love science. My father is a scientist.

This is not rocket science - climate science is very simple. A 12-year-old could probably understand this subject [of climate change].

I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering.

I don't read Science Fiction.

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?

By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.

I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer science is very similar to the mindset in Zen.

Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.

Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.

I have yet to see a career that is similar in benefit as computer science for doing the advanced exercises.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

I began a conversation with the heads of our esteemed department of political science, and instantly I concluded, 'Hopelessly incompetent!

Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in science fiction and second in science.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.