Science Quotes

"When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you"

Story Musgrave, Astronaut

"We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen"

Elle Fanning, Actress

"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it"

Diane Cilento, Actress

"In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science"

Simon Greenleaf, Judge

"The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do"

Lindsay Wagner, Actress

"They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt"

Denis Kearney, Politician

"Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another"

Soundarya, Actress

"There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory"

Kenneth R. Miller, Scientist

"The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question"

Kenneth R. Miller, Scientist

"To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live"

Ruth Hubbard, Scientist

"As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science"

Poul Anderson, Writer

"Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view"

Walter Gilbert, Scientist

"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none"

Thomas Kuhn, Writer

"We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines"

James Van Allen, Physicist

"He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?"

Robert Barclay, Writer

"But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms"

Dan Simmons, Author

"In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian"

James H. Breasted

"Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality"

Mary McCarthy, Author

"The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being"

James G. Frazer, Scientist

"I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh"

Shelby Foote, Author

"The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered"

William Irwin Thompson, Philosopher

"A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe"

Charles Vest, Educator

"Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon"

Sidney Altman, Scientist

"I was a science fiction junkie for a long time"

William Hurt, Actor

"I was a Political Science major"

Harry Shearer, Actor

"I've always been interested in science fiction"

Martin Landau, Actor

"What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies"

Fareed Zakaria, Journalist

"My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher"

David Soul, Actor

"It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope"

James Gunn, Writer

"Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom"

Kenneth R. Miller, Scientist

"Science grows like a weed every year"

Kary Mullis, Scientist

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