Science Quotes

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.