Science Quotes

We need justice. We need toleration, honesty and moral courage. These are modern virtues without which we cannot hope to control the forces science has let loose among us.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching.

An accomplished mathematician, i.e. a most wretched orator.

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.

Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.

There is no counting the unsolved problems of Natural History.

The only truly alien planet is Earth.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance.

When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.

Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [A New Hope's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.

Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.