Science Quotes

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

A satellite has no conscience.

We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into the station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food.

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.