Science Quotes

Science is what scientists do.

Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.

It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction.

I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

People Propose, Science Studies, Technology Conforms.

Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily if not criminally irresponsible.

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science.

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

Einstein used science to get laid. That guy is a genius. I've been using money.

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.

Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible or that physics had a lot of catching up to do.

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

O sweet spontaneous earth how often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty thou answereth them only with spring.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed.

The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity.

We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.

America is running a fever, but there are no emergency rooms.

The angle of entry of the ball equals the angle of release. You cannot deny the laws of science.

-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

If God exists He must be manifest somehow in matter, and His ways are what science is discovering.

Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.