Science Quotes
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If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.
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While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.
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What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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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.
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I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
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Science is-or should be-the greenest force of all.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I was a bit of an introvert growing up, and I tended to do better in math and science at school, so I went with it.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
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'...neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.'
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I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.
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'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.
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Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.
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I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.
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I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
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I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.
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In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.