Science Quotes

• I think when science fiction is at its worst, it's just spaceships flying around shooting at each other. There has to be a lot more going on than that... science fiction is about exploring new worlds and new ideas, not about ray guns and action, necessarily.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Science
  • Action
  • Flying

• Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • Game
  • Science
  • Chess

• Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Energy

• Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • School
  • Teach
  • Humility

• The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • True
  • Alone
  • Literature

• The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Power
  • Science

• 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.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • Up
  • Fate
  • Planning

• Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Process
  • Erroneous

• Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.

  

  Anna Torv
  • Science

• So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Men
  • Moon
  • Poor

• I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation.

  

  Carol W. Greider
  • Important
  • Women
  • Science

• If the atoms in a decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings of atoms so formed would reach over six million million miles.

  

  Francis William Aston
  • Distance
  • Normal
  • Chains

• My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

  

  Jon Scieszka
  • Science
  • Reading

• Science, in the broadest sense, is simply that which may be verified; but how much of that which theology accepts and goes upon is verifiable by human reason or experience?

  

  John Burroughs
  • May
  • Experience
  • Science

• Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... the instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

  

  Charles Lapworth
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Concerned

• Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.

  

  M. M. Mangasarian
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• Ever read any Friedrich Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually dog-eared my copy. I ended up going back through it and writing a précis, I was so impressed by this book. It's all about what happens when government tries to make everything right.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Political

• A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they're next to.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Science
  • Independent
  • River

• Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.

  

  Margaret Heffernan
  • Different
  • Business
  • Science

• Acting is not a science. Anybody who believes that their success exists in relation to their goals is deluding themselves; unless you think of a career in terms of financial goals. I have nothing against Tom Cruise, but he must have a large capacity to deal with the business side of movies.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Business
  • Career
  • Success

• Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years.

  

  George E. Brown, Jr.
  • World
  • Trying
  • Vision

• Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.

  

  Van Jones
  • Science
  • Marketing

• Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Pretty
  • Science
  • Comedy

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