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Science Quotes
"The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler."
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"It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone."
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"I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them."
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"I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science."
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"As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography."
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"Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period."
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"Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real."
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"I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all."
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"I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid."
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"Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break."
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"Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science."
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"Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think."
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"It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science."
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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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"I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday."
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"Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts."
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"My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method."
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"I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped."
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"In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle."
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"The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense."
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"Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us."
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"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature."
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"Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans."
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"Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe."
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"When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two."
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"You can take the entire world of physics with all of its macrocosm and microcosm, its quantum mechanics and nuclear physics and reduce it to one word: energy. It's all energy. Scientists say that if you can't measure it, weight it, or see it, it doesn't exist. Well, no one has ever seen energy. We can see its effects, but not 'it."
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"Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program."
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"That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out."
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