Science Quotes

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

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.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

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.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

The simplest science book is over my head.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.