Science Quotes

Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.

Rota's personality is compatible with mine.

Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.

God created, Linnaeus ordered.

I believe that all people are deserving of equal dignity and also equal protection. I also believe in science. And those are three things the Republican party platform doesn't believe in.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.

Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.

God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Science will win because it works.

We won't know for a few years.

A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.

More often than politicians, but not as often as they should.

In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

Science makes God unnecessary.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

I'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.

Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous beliefs.

It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

I have a quantum car. Every time I look at the speedometer I get lost.

Counterfeit Kings is the King Lear of space operas. Science fiction has a fresh, new, no-nonsense voice and his name is Adam Connell.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

I publish things that in my judgment are good science.

Will America lead...and reap the rewards? Or will we surrender that advantage to other countries with clearer vision?