Science Quotes

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Science fiction is an extension of science.

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.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

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.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

I was particularly good at math and science.

I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

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

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

So I decided on science when I was in college.