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Science Quotes
"Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view."
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"I think science works the way a tightrope walker works: by not looking at its feet. As soon as it looks at its feet, it realizes its operating in midair."
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"I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way."
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"In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere."
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"Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories."
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"Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break."
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"Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely."
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"I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it."
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"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1."
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"Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic."
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"After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it."
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"Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game."
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"In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern."
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"I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry."
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"I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science."
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"We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture."
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"Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah."
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"I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science."
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"One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course."
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"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts."
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"Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir."
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"But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation."
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"As soon as he had departed she directed her attention to the others."I need a shielded containment box, radiation gloves and a micro welding torch. And a crescent wrench."
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"Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them."
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"Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved."
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"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."
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"A bullet fired level from a gun will hit ground at same time as a bullet dropped from the same height. Do the Physics."
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"But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever."
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"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."
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"There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end."
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"Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems."
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"These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe."
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"In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge."
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"Darwin himself said as much: 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.' Darwin could find no such case, and nor has anybody since Darwin's time, despite strenuous, indeed desperate, efforts. Many candidates for this holy grail of creationism have been proposed. None has stood up to analysis."
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