Science Quotes

And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

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.