Science Quotes

"We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

"Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

"Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision"

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Writer

"Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions"

Cleveland Abbe, Scientist

"The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research"

Roger Wicker, Politician

"I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about"

Rupert Sheldrake, Scientist

"Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

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

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it"

Lord Kelvin, Scientist

"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability"

William Osler, Scientist

"Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies"

John Clayton

"The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

"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"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English"

Matthew McGrory, Actor

"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

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

Sarah Zettel, Author

"Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science"

Jared Diamond, Author

"Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me"

William Petersen, Actor

"So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature"

Lennart Meri, Statesman

"Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago"

Paul Samuelson, Economist

"And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

"When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months"

Vernor Vinge, Writer

"But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress"

Janet Suzman, Actress

"War is the science of destruction"

John Abbott, Statesman

"I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast"

Ivan Reitman, Actor

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