Famous Quotes
- We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
- Jonathan Safran Foer on Science
- Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.
- Scott Ritter on Science
- Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
- Karen Armstrong on Science
- What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
- Henrik Ibsen on Science
- What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
- James Hansen on Science
- What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.
- Kyle Chandler on Science
- What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.
- James Lovelock on Science
- What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them they were born that way.
- Octavia Butler on Science
- What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau on Science
- What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.
- Henry A. Wallace on Science
- What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
- Fareed Zakaria on Science
- What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
- Jeremy Rifkin on Science
- When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
- Jean Rostand on Science
- When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.
- Jane Goodall on Science
- When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.
- Michelle Forbes on Science
- When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
- Steven Wright on Science
- When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
- W. H. Auden on Science
- When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.
- Shannon Lucid on Science
- When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
- Leon Battista Alberti on Science
- When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
- When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.
- Terri Windling on Science
- When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
- John Carpenter on Science
- When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.
- Warwick Davis on Science
- When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.
- Scott Thompson on Science
- When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
- Irvine Welsh on Science
- When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
- Marissa Mayer on Science
- When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up-it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.
- Kirstie Alley on Science
- When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
- Denis Diderot on Science
- When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now when was then?
- When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.
- Anton Chekhov on Science
- When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
- John Charles Polanyi on Science
- Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
- Max Planck on Science
- Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
- Dave Parnas on Science
- Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.
- Joel Edgerton on Science
- While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.
- Allen Klein on Science
- While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.
- Mike Pence on Science
- Winning is the science of being totally prepared.
- George Allen, Sr. on Science
- Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
- With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.
- Kenneth L. Pike on Science
- With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.
- Dwight Schultz on Science
- With science fiction there's endless possibilities.
- Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.
- Ernst Mach on Science
- 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.
- Jane Goodall on Science
- Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Science
- You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
- Heinrich Heine on Science
- You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.
- James Hansen on Science
- You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.
- Murray Gell-Mann on Science
- You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
- Imogen Cunningham on Science
- Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.
- John Charles Polanyi on Science
- Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
- Niels Bohr on Science
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