Science Quotes

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.

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.