Science Quotes

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Science does not permit exceptions.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.