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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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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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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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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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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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 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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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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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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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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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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One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'
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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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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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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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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
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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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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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Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
