Science Quotes
-
In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
-
'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.
-
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
-
In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
-
I would love to be in New York, but it's really hard to be unemployed in New York. Everyone's got a place to be. In L.A., there's a system, a science to being unemployed.
-
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
-
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
-
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
-
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
-
The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
-
Regardless of how you feel about whether Plan B should be available in the community, the fact is the FDA decision should be based on science, not cultural controversy.
-
Yoga is an art and science of living.
-
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
-
I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want the science part of the novel to overshadow the fiction. Being medically accurate wasn't my main goal.
-
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
-
My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
-
Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.
-
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
-
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
-
I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.
-
Leave the atom alone.
-
Science, ever since the time of the Arabs, has had two functions: (1) to enable us to know things, and (2) to enable us to do things.
-
"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To endow research is merely to encourage the research for endowment; the true man of science will not be held back by poverty, and if science is of use to us, it will pay for itself." Such are but a few samples of the conflict of opinion which we find raging around us.
-
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
