Science Quotes

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

"We especially need imagination in science"

"I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms"

Stephen Jay Gould, Scientist

"Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures"

Evan Esar, Writer

"All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things"

Frank Knight, Economist

"To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort"

William Gibson, Writer

"Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely"

Josef Albers, Artist

"My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"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"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

"I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap"

Robert Ballard, Scientist

"Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life"

Arthur Koestler, Novelist

"We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France"

Suzanne Fields

"I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology"

Major Owens, Politician

"I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing"

Yancy Butler, Actress

"Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world"

Julie Bishop, Politician

"I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see"

Josef Albers, Artist

"The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

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