Science Quotes

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.

It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction.

So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.

Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive.

Having a great marriage isn't rocket science. It's simply a choice.

A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.

I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.

What's great about science fiction is that it allows for surreal scenarios even if they pertain to the real world.

Perl programming is an *empirical* science!

When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.

There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.

Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown.

A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.

I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.

Some people need God and some people need science.

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.

I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens to know.

Of course it was always a friendly debate though sometimes I got too loud.

Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny.

Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.

You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.

Dieu, c'est le voile mystérieux sous lequel nous cachons notre ignorance de la cause première. God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

Truth is different from error in two respects: it is a little harder to prove and more difficult to admit.

What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

Pour réussir dans la science, il faut douter; pour réussir dans la vie, il faut être sûr. To succeed in science, one must doubt; to succeed in life, one must be sure.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual.

The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.

Nearly every understanding is gained by a painful struggle in which belief and unbelief are dramatically interwoven.

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things.

The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision".