Science Quotes

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two.

It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

The world is my country, science is my religion.

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.

When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.

Leave the atom alone.