Science Quotes

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

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.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

I would say keep supporting space flight, keep telling the public and the politicians why it's important to advance science and explore the galaxy. I encourage the Japanese to keep doing what they're doing.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.