Science Quotes

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.

Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure.

I'd missed science and what it was all about because I was too busy trying to think of other things, when I was at school. I was too busy trying to be James Dean.

I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music.

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

Yeah. Science doesn't end. That's the one thing I learned. People think of science as spitting out right answers, and that's it. It's always under review.

You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.

To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

Social media is not rocket science. This, however, does not make it easy either.

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.

Science Fiction is the jazz of literature.

With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.

Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

The science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better.

Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.

For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents an alternative view of both science and the world.

It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books.

I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.

If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel.

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.

Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it. So I don't think I could successfully pull off being on a project like that without really losing my mind.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

Science is what scientists do, not what nonscientists think they do or ought to be doing. Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen.