Quotes About Science

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!

Science is not addressed to poets.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.

I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

Theology is the science of the divine lie.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!