Science Quotes

"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction"

"My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole"

Dmitri Mendeleev, Scientist

"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless"

Ernst Mach, Physicist

"I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots"

Dinesh D'Souza, Author

"I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives"

Peter Hammill, Musician

"I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit"

Joe Flanigan, Actor

"Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope"

Carrie P. Snow

"Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it"

Bill Mumy, Actor

"How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments"

David Hilbert, Mathematician

"I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer"

Cindy Crawford, Model

"We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig"

John L. Phillips, Astronaut

"People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research"

Frederik Pohl, Writer

"The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science"

Bill Toomey, Athlete

"Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair"

David Crane

"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts"

Brian Aldiss, Writer

"As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct"

Alfre Woodard, Actress

"My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together"

Ann Druyan, Writer

"Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science"

Ann Druyan, Writer

"My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses"

Ann Druyan, Writer

"Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars"

Barney Oliver, Scientist

"That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself"

Adam Savage, Entertainer

"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs"

Alton Brown, Entertainer

"But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates"

Robert B. Laughlin, Physicist

"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it"

Thomas Dekker, Dramatist

"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science"

Robert Graves, Novelist

"Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation"

Wilhelm Reich, Psychologist

"If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done"

Christa McAuliffe, Astronaut

"What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists"

Roland Joffe, Director

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