Science Quotes

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

Intelligence is not a science.

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.

Art is science made clear.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.