Science Quotes

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this.

Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.

In our educational institutions applied science may almost be described as a "no-man's land."

The protocols of science fiction and the protocols of science are not separate-they'r e woven together.

I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.

I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

Matter moves, but Ether is strained.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."