Science Quotes

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to it are the mining and burning of coal.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if you want to be a writer, there's so much information out there, it's almost too much.

Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry.

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.

A loving and fierce defense of economics as a science.

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

Science is science, but a girl MUST get her hair done.

Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.

Science values static patterns.

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.

We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.]

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

Science fiction is really a rather tiny business compared with its giant cousin, which is fantasy.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.

You always need to find the balance in the science, but the balance to talking about evolutionary theory is not to talk about creationism, that's not a balance, that's misleading and it's just wrong.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

It's much more effective to allow solutions to problems to emerge from the people close to the problem rather than to impose them from higher up.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.

One must not politicize science. But the converse is not necessarily true. There's no reason why scientists can not go into the public sphere. In fact, I would argue they should.

Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.