Science Quotes

I'm a huge science fiction fan, and I'm a huge fan of J. Michael Straczynski.

Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

Transparency and detail are everything in science.

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

I am walking today because of chiropractic care I received years ago. I predict a great future for the science of chiropractic.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Those who ignore Statistics are condemned to reinvent it.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

If you think you're a really good programmer... read Knuth's Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

The conscience is more wise than science.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.

I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.

A drug is a substance which, if injected into a rabbit, produces a paper.

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.

Newton said, "If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants." These days we stand on each other's feet!

The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of its own evolution.

Science is uncertain.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.

A philosopher once said, 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.' Well, they don't!

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.

Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.

Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.