Science Quotes
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One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.
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I don't really read non-fiction, but I have grown up on a steady diet of Wodehouse and, of course, science fiction.
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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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I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
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In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.
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Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
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Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven by individual authors, with individual concerns.
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
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It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.
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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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There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on that tradition to take risks, to constantly raise the level of their ambition.
