Science Quotes

The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.

The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry.

If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

Working in this industry, I do feel that science and creativity turned out to be a very useful combination for me.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness.

Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.

None of what’s happened to me and to my family has shaken what I know to be correct and true about science and medicine, and my experiences.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.

My message to the Pope would be, don't take sides on the science. Don't make the same mistake as seven out of 10 judges in the trial of Galileo, when they invited him to retract his views.

I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.

Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.

We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

First causes are outside the realm of science.

We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

Science rejects the indeterminate.

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

But while I accept specialization in the practice, I reject it utterly in the theory of science.

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.

A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. '

Apparently I’ve been typecast in science fiction: I’m a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.

Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt very balanced. I still had respect for faith.

Chemistry: that most excellent child of intellect and art.

It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".