Science Quotes
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that's how I put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
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When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.
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I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
