Science Quotes

"If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction"

Matthew Modine, Actor

"I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that"

Gillian Anderson, Actress

"I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"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"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science"

Kenny Marchant, Politician

"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers"

James C. Maxwell, Mathematician

"At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science"

Deborah Bull, Dancer

"Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well"

Roy H. Williams, Businessman

"Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted"

Michael Behe, Scientist

"It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection"

Michael Behe, Scientist

"Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done"

Joe Shuster, Artist

"But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern"

Amy Lowell, Poet

"There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen"

Larry Wachowski, Director

"I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it"

Ivan Reitman, Actor

"I don't read Science Fiction"

Brent Spiner, Actor

"I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort"

Fred Saberhagen, Author

"The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time"

David M. Brown, Astronaut

"It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural"

Michael Behe, Scientist

"It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on"

Michael Behe, Scientist

"Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game"

Blake Edwards, Director

"That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent"

George Stigler, Economist

"Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so"

Henry W. Kendall, Scientist

"And if doctor says that you don't have IBS with constipation, you might want to get a second opinion, because I had doctors that were telling me... of course, a lot of this has to do with science - progressing"

Cybill Shepherd, Actress

"English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Clergyman

"Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists"

George Stigler, Economist

"That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them"

Chauncey Wright, Philosopher

"Experimentation is an active science"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man"

Chauncey Wright, Philosopher

"Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible"

Charles Krauthammer, Journalist

"Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe"

Harry Dean Stanton, Actor

"In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers"

Harvey Cushing, Scientist

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