Science Quotes
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There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
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Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.
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I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
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Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.
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The supporters now, the bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get it supported, they want to know from the start that it will work.
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It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.
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We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing.
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To me, rock and roll is not a perfect science.
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
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Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.
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Comedy is my proper job. It's what I should be doing, and when I do other bits like my science series, I miss it.
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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
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I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
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And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man regress, should he allow himself to resemble a primitive beast, the louse begins to multiply again and treats man as he deserves, as a brute beast. This conclusion would have endeared itself to the warm heart of Alfred Nobel. My contribution to it makes me feel less unworthy of the honour which you have conferred upon me in his name.
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Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for the dangers of the infinite.
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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
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I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Gentlemen, now you will see that now you see nothing. And why you see nothing you will see presently.
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To guess what to keep and what to throw away takes considerable skill. Actually it is probably merely a matter of luck, but it looks as if it takes considerable skill.
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There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?
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I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies.
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The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
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Science can make a heart beat. But it can’t make it race.
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Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.
