Science Quotes
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I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.
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A community whose life is not irrigated by art and science, by religion and philosophy, day upon day, is a community that exists half alive.
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Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.
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Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
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There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of origins; they are not allowed to hear other points of view; they are taught incorrectly about science and taught that evolution is fact.
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My 'Rot & Ruin' series is a post-apocalyptic adventure for teens. My 'Joe Ledger' novels are science-based action thrillers for adults. My 'Dead of Night' stories are zombie tales for adults; my 'Pine Deep Trilogy' is classic horror for adults, and I've written nonfiction books on topics ranging from martial arts to folklore.
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I actually wanted to be a doctor. But doing all those horrid rat dissections made me faint. I studied science till the 12th standard and later took up commerce. I was planning to do chartered accountancy, but fate had something else in store for me.
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Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.
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History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
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In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction.
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Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.
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Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.
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Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.
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Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.
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Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.
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The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.
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Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
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And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as being prior to it or more excellent... So that from this we may perceive the causes not only of life in general... but also of longer or shorter life, of sleeping and waking, of skill, of strength and so forth.
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
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I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science.
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My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
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I don't know what has caused this reawakening in academia. Obama? The GOP's assaults on science and on patients? Jon Stewart? I'm not at all sure. I just know I don't feel nearly as alone in academia as I used to. I'm feeling increasingly surrounded by fellow Ph.D.'s and by M.D.'s who seem to be taking a lot of things personally.
