Science Quotes

Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity and its sources. Imagine is his best book yet.

Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest in journalism and political science and international relations.

Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for it beyond rhetoric.

In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

We may fairly judge of the commercial prosperity of a country from the amount of sulphuric acid it consumes.

From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

[On cloning sheep:] Oh great, just what we need - more sheep.

Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.

I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.

Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their money back for

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.

Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

Any systematic body of knowledge is science. The more systematic the body of knowledge is the more scientific it is.

The difference between religion and science is the difference between thoughtless certainty and thoughtful doubt.

The goal of science is to understand the fundamental reality and the goal of technology is to change that reality.

My life is dedicated to the discovery of God, the advancement of science, and the pre-eminence of England.

The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.

I'm not well-versed in the science fiction world. I'm hoping that I'll get more opportunities in it because you get to create a new world.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

Amanda is now a tenure-track professor at Yale.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves.

The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.

The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

The concept of a value-free science is absurd.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

A true conservative is on the side of science.

In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources.

Science is a set of rules that keep the scientists from lying to each other.

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.

I'm not a scientist. I just read articles that are interesting and that capture my imagination, but I think there's a reason why there's so much faith placed in science.

As a fan of science fiction and as a kid who loves monsters, science fiction movies and this, that and the other, there's no real way to make a career out of that. Especially when I grew up.