Famous Quotes
- Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
- Susan Sontag on Science
- Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
- Brit Marling on Science
- Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
- Iain Banks on Science
- Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
- Ray Bradbury on Science
- Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.
- Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
- Brian Aldiss on Science
- Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
- Jean M. Auel on Science
- Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
- Iain Banks on Science
- Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
- Octavia Butler on Science
- Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
- Walter Jon Williams on Science
- Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.
- Denis Leary on Science
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
- Isaac Asimov on Science
- Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
- Philip K. Dick on Science
- Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
- Theodore Sturgeon on Science
- Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
- Margaret Atwood on Science
- Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
- John Charles Polanyi on Science
- Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
- Will Durant on Science
- 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.
- George Wald on Science
- Science grows like a weed every year.
- Kary Mullis on Science
- Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
- James D. Watson on Science
- Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
- John Burroughs on Science
- Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.
- Charles Krauthammer on Science
- Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
- Aldous Huxley on Science
- Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
- Thomas Huxley on Science
- Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
- Jean Rostand on Science
- Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
- Kary Mullis on Science
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
- Neil Armstrong on Science
- Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
- Edgar Allan Poe on Science
- Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
- Jacob Bronowski on Science
- Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
- John Boyd Orr on Science
- Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
- Ashley Montagu on Science
- Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
- Tryon Edwards on Science
- Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
- Alexis Carrel on Science
- Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Science
- Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Science
- Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science
- Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
- Miguel De Unamuno on Science
- Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
- Alan Turing on Science
- Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Science
- Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
- Edwin Land on Science
- Science is a self-sufficient activity.
- Jonathan Miller on Science
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
- Carl Sagan on Science
- Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.
- Ray Comfort on Science
- Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein on Science
- Science is all metaphor.
- Timothy Leary on Science
- Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
- Aleister Crowley on Science
- Science is always inquiring.
- Thabo Mbeki on Science
- Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
- Stephen Jay Gould on Science
- Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
- Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.
- Jose Padilha on Science
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