Quotes About Science

THE JOHN CARTER OF MARS COLLECTION ..................

If the mystery of the cross becomes the inner form of this science, a living energy that allows the soul to be molded by what is received from this mystery, it turns into a science of the cross . On the contrary, excessive interior preoccupation with one's own personal concerns can develop in the course of life into a general indifference to things religious.

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

Geography is an earthly subject, but a heavenly science.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter

If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [of gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind (Chapter 65,p. 68)

And Star Trek is not an action TV series. It's about a lot more than that

A future where people worked together and utilized science and reason and logic to try and solve problems, instead of just blowing things up.

Progress in human affairs, whether in science or in history or in society, has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not to confine themselves to seeking piecemeal improvements in the way things are done, but to present fundamental challenges in the name of reason to the current way of doing things and to the avowed or hidden assumptions on which it rests

Science fiction is full of stories about harvesting humans and clones for their parts.

The specific difference between sf and other estranging genres, such as fantasy, is that sf's displacements must be logically consistent and methodical; in fact, they must be scientific to the extent that they imitate, reinforce and illuminate the process of scientific cognition.

He didn't believe there was a Heaven or Hell, and to him, the concept of sin was an abstraction founded in cultural mythology. It wasn't science, therefore it wasn't real. He knew though, that suicide was universally considered a sin, a grievous sin, and for some reason-perhaps a subconscious instinct of self-preservation, which was actually a biological, not a spiritual activity, he wondered... What if I'm wrong? What if I kill myself and I go to Hell?

We turn ignorance into an inner landscape and pretend that this allegorical enterprise, which might be harmless or even charming, if it weren't so expensive and influential, amounts to a science.

Quantum reality is a nest of snakes, Clavain, and we are already poking it with a very sharp stick.

Knowledge and science is the fruit of paradise; in times of threat it is one's ally, in exile it keeps one company, and in solitude it is one's intimate friend and companion.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

"There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom"

It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.

In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.