What Is Science Quotes

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

Science can't tell you why anything happens.

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Even people that were never interested in science fiction are interested in STAR TREK.

In science, the most exciting expression isn’t ‘Eureka!’ It’s ‘Huh?’

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.

I was always fascinated by science-fiction shows, shows like 'Star Trek' and 'Lost in Space.'

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.

I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as a journalist would, finding out what I needed to know.

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

Science is a cemetary of dead ideas.

Science teaches us, in effect, to submit our reason to the truth and to know and judge of things as they are-that is to say, as they themselves choose to be and not as we would have them to be.

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

The essence of acting is the conveyance of truth through the medium of the actor's mind and person. The science of acting deals with the perfecting of that medium.

Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal.

I wondered if it was possible to donate my body to science before I was actually dead. I wondered if a disease were to be named after me what the symptoms would be.

[on L. Ron Hubbard] I'm not in favor of his religion by any means. But he wrote a book called 'Battlefield Earth' that was a very fun science-fiction book.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.

I think you have to be left-brained, to a certain extent, to understand science. I can talk about it, but I can't do it.

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.

Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when one is content.

When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.

Our focus should be on developmental dimensions of atomic science with a special outreach to India's youth.

However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living!

The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.