Science Quotes

"The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"

Stephen Hawking, Physicist

"I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it"

Ridley Scott, Director

"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue"

Francis Ford Coppola, Director

"Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do"

Joseph Wood Krutch, Environmentalist

"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons"

Marie Curie, Scientist

"After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it"

Marie Curie, Scientist

"Art is science made clear"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

"Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else"

Martin Fleischmann, Scientist

"I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid"

Martin Fleischmann, Scientist

"I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work"

Martin Fleischmann, Scientist

"American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been"

Martin Fleischmann, Scientist

"When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now"

Robbie Fowler, Athlete

"Science is a self-sufficient activity"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books"

Jean M. Auel, Writer

"Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"Experience by itself is not science"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"The proper study of mankind is the science of design"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science"

Michael Polanyi, Scientist

"I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human"

Joe Morton, Actor

"There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person"

Elizabeth Moon, Author

"My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward"

Esther Williams, Actress

"We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives"

David Brin, Author

"Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on"

David Brin, Author

"I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields"

David Douglass, Physicist

"Intelligence is not a science"

Frank Carlucci, Politician

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