Science Quotes

"That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them"

James Gunn, Writer

"Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more"

Edouard Manet, Artist

"When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies"

Irvine Welsh, Novelist

"Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message"

Charles Vest, Educator

"Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true"

Charles Vest, Educator

"Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them"

Frank Luntz, Politician

"For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction"

C. J. Cherryh, Writer

"As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves"

Norman Macleod, Writer

"In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years"

Michael Shanks, Actor

"Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful"

Philip K. Dick, Writer

"From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science"

George E. Brown, Jr., Politician

"The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method"

Katherine Fullerton Gerould

"Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years"

George E. Brown, Jr., Politician

"Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science"

Ernest Lawrence, Scientist

"I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science"

John Henry Carver, Physicist

"Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy"

Guglielmo Marconi, Scientist

"Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times"

Greg Egan, Scientist

"I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process"

John Anderson

"Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal"

Ernest Istook, Politician

"I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school"

Mary Wesley, Novelist

"But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation"

Fisher Stevens, Actor

"The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century"

Albert J. Nock, Philosopher

"I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself"

Joe Flanigan, Actor

"Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction"

Joan D. Vinge, Author

"I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but that's a little way off yet"

Jeremy Bulloch, Actor

"But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction"

Jack Vance, Author

"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts"

David Hilbert, Mathematician

"Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself"

David Hilbert, Mathematician

"I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death"

George Eads, Actor

"I was interested in science before I even knew what science was"

George E. Brown, Jr., Politician

"Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science"

Jane Mayer, Journalist

"Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne"

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Author

"When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers"

George Porter, Scientist

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