Science Quotes

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

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.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.

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

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.

One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

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.

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.

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

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.