Science Quotes

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Science is facts.

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.