What Is Science Quotes

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

In other words, science tells us that Adam and Eve are fictions. That Saint Paul or Uncle Tom Cobley and all thought otherwise is irrelevant. They were wrong.

We who cherish science should be careful to distinguish when we are doing science and when we are extrapolating from it

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

Here are more quotes about chemistry and famous quotations made by chemists relating to their science. There's no way you can create a chemistry where none exists.

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

Physicist is both to my mouth and ears so awkward that I think I shall never use it. The equivalent of three separate sounds of "I" in one word is too much.

Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

Experimental science is the queen of knowledge.

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both.

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone.

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.

Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

Science advances funeral by funeral

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

The doctor is the servant and the interpreter of nature. Whatever he thinks or does, if he follows not in nature's footsteps he will never be able to control her.

For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science

Science does not permit exceptions.

Sickness is an illusion, to be annihilated by Science.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.