Science Quotes

"Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words"

Northrop Frye, Critic

"As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography"

Norman Spinrad, Author

"If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater"

Joel Hodgson, Entertainer

"Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period"

James M. Baldwin

"Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone"

Eyvind Johnson, Author

"What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth"

Brad Sherman, Politician

"One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"Science is not gadgetry"

Warren Weaver, Scientist

"It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science"

James H. Breasted

"A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation"

Max Gluckman, Scientist

"My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society"

Eliza Dushku, Actress

"With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries"

William Irwin Thompson, Philosopher

"It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects"

Michael O'Donoghue, Writer

"We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research"

Kenichi Fukui, Scientist

"Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself"

Walter Gilbert, Scientist

"In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age"

Tim Bishop, Politician

"Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone"

Nathan Deal, Politician

"In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism"

Nursultan Nazarbayev, Politician

"Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science"

James Inhofe, Politician

"Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away"

Henry Fonda, Actor

"As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic"

Don Young, Politician

"The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities"

Charles Vest, Educator

"I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film"

Gil Gerard, Actor

"I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members"

Guglielmo Marconi, Scientist

"The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos"

William Irwin Thompson, Philosopher

"Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain"

Julian May, Writer

"However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University"

Jeremy Irons, Actor

"Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates"

John Opie, Artist

"Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great)"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful"

Jeri Ryan, Actress

"My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

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