Science Quotes

[Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment.

In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic.

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

Science is the art of the solvable.

The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science.

To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

The Torus is my enemy!

Sci-fi is often a metaphor. I think it's more the themes and questions that science fiction raises rather than the exact predictions that should guide us.

Fashion is far more about really feel than science.

Fashion is more than fell about science

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.

Nature is an experimenter.

I'm very concerned about the increasing distortion of research by the intrusion of the market. Universities are beginning to see science as a means of attracting funds.

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

The true science and study of mankind is man.

The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est l'homme.]

The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules.

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner that the sense of feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.

We have to keep up the fight for evidence-based science and policy.

It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.

Will none wipe the sneer off the face of the cosmos?

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

Politics is no exact science.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.