Science Quotes

"Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession"

"Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling"

"Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves"

Werner Heisenberg, Physicist

"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption"

Willard Van Orman Quine

"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't"

Thomas Gold, Scientist

"The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical"

Henry Taube, Scientist

"In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science"

Andrei Sakharov, Physicist

"In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science"

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Actress

"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers"

Lewis Thomas, Scientist

"It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing"

Norman Cousins, Author

"It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science"

Peter Agre, Scientist

"I quite enjoy science fiction"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher"

Arthur Holly Compton, Scientist

"I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

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

Robert Sheckley, Author

"Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science"

Werner Heisenberg, Physicist

"The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into"

Terri Windling, Artist

"Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so"

Muhammed Iqbal, Poet

"I love science fiction"

Pam Grier, Actress

"I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing"

Leroy Chiao, Astronaut

"In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic"

Jonathan Carroll, Author

"I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

"I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism"

James Cameron, Director

"The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern"

Daniel Dennett, Philosopher

"The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work"

Geezer Butler, Musician

"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"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness"

Norman O. Brown, Philosopher

"Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer"

Alan Perlis, Scientist

"Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique"

Jared Diamond, Author

"In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting"

Lord Kelvin, Scientist

"In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

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