Quotes About Science

Undoubtedly his greatest contributions were in the field of psychohistory. Seldon found the field little more than a set of vague axioms; he left it a profound statistical science.… … The best existing authority we have for the details of his life is the biography

La psicohistoria no trataba del hombre, sino de las masas de hombres. Era la ciencia de las muchedumbres, de miles de millones de personas. Podía prever las reacciones a diferentes estímulos con la misma exactitud que una ciencia menor predecía el rebote de una bola de billar. La reacción de un hombre se podía vaticinar por medio de las matemáticas conocidas, pero la de mil millones era algo distinto

And finally, people are against it." "But why?" "Because they're against science in general. You should know this as well as anyone, Professor.

We are gaining the knowledge; science is giving us that. Now we need wisdom as well.

THE FOUNDATION NOVELS Prelude to Foundation Foundation Foundation and Empire Second Foundation Foundation's Edge Forward the Foundation

The words that have spurred the greatest scientific breakthroughs are probably not Eureka but gee, that's funny!

it may be worth listening to all that scraping, tootling, and banging, for whatever information it might conceivably yield concerning Earth.

There is probability of 1.7% that I will be executed, but of course that will not stop the project. We have taken that into account as well.

podemos afirmar que hacia 350 a.C. ningún científico dudaba ya de que la Tierra fuese una esfera. Desde entonces, este concepto ha sido admitido en todo momento por cualquier hombre culto del mundo occidental.

Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one? A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

We consider the greatest end of science is the classification of past data. It is important, but is there no further work to be done?

We are looking for extraterrestrial civilization that disposes of enough energy of a sufficiently sophisticated kind to be detectable over interstellar distances

Isaac Asimov

The Foundation, as he says, was established as a scientific refuge – the means by which the science and culture of the dying Empire was to be preserved through the centuries of barbarism that have begun, to be rekindled in the end into a second Empire.

How small can you make the whole gadget?" "Hyper-relays can be had micro-size Ã¢â'¬Â¦ wiring Ã¢â'¬Â¦ chips—Space, you've got a few hundred circuits there.

All sources of energy in our Universe run down. We can't help that. Everything is downhill in just one direction, and we can force a temporary uphill, backward, only by taking advantage of some greater downhill in the vicinity. If we want useful energy forever, we need a road that is downhill both ways. That is a paradox in our Universe; it stands to reason that whatever is downhill one way is uphill going back.

And the ship died! For it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly.

It is unscientific to suppose meaningless cases.

La entropía, pequeña, es una palabra que significa la cantidad de desgaste del Universo. Todo

Desde el punto de vista sociológico, es como si, cuando el viejo Imperio empezó a descomponerse en sus bordes, la ciencia les hubiese fallado a los mundos periféricos. Para que volvieran a aceptarla, tenía que aparecer disfrazada de otra cosa... Y eso es justo lo que ha pasado. Y ha funcionado a las mil maravillas.

Science may be, and has been, misused, but the proper cure for that is not to replace science by non-science and sense by nonsense - but to replace science-misused by science well-used.

Forse non esiste una fine nella scienza e ciò è anche un bene perché un universo senza misteri sarebbe insopportabilmente noioso. (da Il libro di biologia )

NEMESIS THE GODS THEMSELVES FANTASTIC VOYAGE I, ASIMOV

When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.