William James Quotes
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
Quotes to Explore
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
J. J. Abrams
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
Randall Munroe
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Karl Kraus
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
Victoria Aveyard
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If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
Karl Schroeder
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
Walter Mosley
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
Walter Kirn
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Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.
Adam Ostrow
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I'm very interested in science.
Candice Millard
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Imogen Cunningham
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
Pamela Sargent
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My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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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.
Randy Newman
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When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
Iain Banks
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
Ted Cruz
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
Pat Robertson
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Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?
Charles Lamb
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
Bernard Berenson
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Vengeance is mine; I will repay.
Leo Tolstoy
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It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.
Jamie Bamber
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My favorite date movie is Scarface. There's nothing like taking a woman to see Scarface. It gets the panties off quick.
Eddie Griffin
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
William James