- Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science
- Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
- Rebecca West on Science
- Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
- Robert Reed on Science
- Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
- John Charles Polanyi on Science
- Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.
- Joan D. Vinge on Science
- Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.
- Freeman Dyson on Science
- Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.
- Jared Diamond on Science
- Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
- Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.
- Ridley Scott on Science
- Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
- E. O. Wilson on Science
- Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
- Barbara Tuchman on Science
- Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
- Thomas Huxley on Science
- Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
- Ernest Holmes on Science
- Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer on Science
- Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.
- John Deacon on Science
- Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
- But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
- Michael Shermer on Science
- But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.
- David Brin on Science
- But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
- Ivan Pavlov on Science
- But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
- Richard Dawkins on Science
- But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
- Jack Vance on Science
- But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
- Joseph Rotblat on Science
- But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
- Bill Condon on Science
- But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
- Michael Shermer on Science
- But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
- Michael Shermer on Science
- By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
- E. O. Wilson on Science
- By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.
- Steven Pinker on Science
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