Science Quotes
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.
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People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
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Ratbert (as lab rat, to scientist): Doc, we have to talk. Every day you feed me over a hundred pounds of macaroni and cheese. At first I thought you were just being a good host. But lately I've been thinking it could be something far more sinister.
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People believe that art and science are two distinct realms. It is far from the truth because, if you look at science from a microscope or from a different lens, you can see the beauty in science. It is very artistic.
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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
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My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.
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Political science has long tried to tackle a fundamental question of voter behavior: Do voters choose politicians because those politicians hold views that they like, or do voters choose policy positions because the politicians they like say those positions are correct?
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Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.
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My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
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We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
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In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.
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I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.
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We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.
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I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
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I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
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There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.
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We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.
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Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Science brings men nearer to God.
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I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit.
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The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.
