Science Quotes

A night in space can last a long time … or maybe it never ends.

God, she was beautiful. Hair a tangled mess, clothes torn, lips pale and swollen, skin streaked in dirt. And she was so damn beautiful and flawed and perfect.

You’re covered in blood again.”“I really am.” “Why are you always covered in blood when I wake up after being unconscious?” “Usually for the same reason you were unconscious, I think.

Good luck with the aliens, and if we survive this feel free to look me up on your next vacation.”“Good luck with the aliens? You are such a prick.

Do you love me?” His voice rang flat in his own ears, deadened and weighted with the recognition there was only one chance, and a fool’s chance at that

Guilt ripped into her like a rusty, serrated knife. It took up residence in her soul, settling in and getting comfortable so it could saw away ragged pieces of flesh and leave her to bleed.

Her pulse raced, pounding in her ears above the howling wind. A wave of dizziness crashed over her with the rapid flood of adrenaline. She gasped in a breath. “Don’t let go.

We don’t get to choose what happens to us—but we always get to choose how we react to it.

I wouldn't be your best and most marvelous friend in the galaxy if I didn’t point out there might be a few negative consequences from all…” she gazed upward and twirled her hand in the air “…this.

That excuse only works until you discover the person is merely an individual like any other.

In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing…okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous.

They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them.

We cannot tell that we are constantly splitting into duplicate selves because our consciousness rides smoothly along only one path in the endlessly forking chains

The other dark places, ' Evan whispered. Visions of tunnels of earth and stone, caves and streams entered his head. It was far beneath them. He knew it was real and it was down there, waiting.

All he cares about here on the edge of forever, is her. He does not want to die. Not because he is afraid. Simply because he cannot bear the thought of leaving her behind.

I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal

This is more than an experience in the shadows of sleep.

Sergeant Tin said it would be easier to just call you Corporal. She said you go back and forth, promoted one day and busted the next.

You're like a plant. Very pure... so opposite from me that it surprises me. Maybe I can stay pure if I don't have to deal with people.

Is happiness found in the nest where there's no hardship? Or is it in the outer world with vast sky? When the time comes, what would you keep and what would you abandon?

But it must be inconvenient to not be able to remember your name. I'll give you my last name, if you want.

We, the people with special powers use our abilities for peace. That's the mission that was given to us by the World.

Masume works hard and he's very thoughtful. He likes hardships, so he's very useful.

Worry? That's a strange thing to say. There's no way anyone would be worried about me. Besides, we're all gonna be enemies eventually.

When you healed this tree, I felt like the leaves waved and made gentle sounds. Maybe the tree was saying thank you.

If you don't understand, I'll stay with you until you do.

Both [social science & science fiction] attempt to understand empirical facts and lived experience as something that is shaped by abstract - and not directly perceptible - structural forces.

This is a Spartacan fighting knife. Heard of the Spartacan Scouts? Rough boys. This knife belonged to one of them. He died saving my life.

I am in short, a witch of the quantumverse.

There's not a hell of a lot of difference between bravery and stupidity." - Commander Boaz Aurigae

How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.

This is what I hate most about guys like you. You didn't even try.

Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.

Everybody wants to own the end of the world.

The good thing about science is that its true whether or not you believe in it

The materials are mostly from living beings - living human beings. They need to be alive to extract the necessary materials.

Am I less of a person because I weigh more?

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.

An illusion is when everyone is in on the joke, a delusion is when you are the joke.

You can scoff at opinions. You can reject hypotheses. You can discard theories out of hand. But you cannot reject the facts

I have been and always shall be your friend.

Caleb!” The sharp, forceful tone demanded he halt. He found he had complied, but did not turn around. His voice sounded low and hoarse, likely because he couldn’t breathe. “Alex, I can’t.

Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

Wit had conquered science by laughing it out of court.

You know what it is like to wake up in the middle of a bunch of corpses with a little girl in your arms scared to death?-Enyo

Good science fiction has its roots in good science.

They’re only askin’ you to do one thing. From what Rogue says, you ain’t exactly reluctant.”“F**k myself into a coma. Sure, I can do that. Then what?”“Uh, wait an hour?

Without ethics, science would be cruelty.

Suppose whatever we can recognize we can find. We can if P=NP.

I am constantly amazed by how much stranger science is than science fiction