Science Quotes

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity; and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.