Quotes About Science

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them they were born that way.

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.

Human purpose isn't what you say it is or what I say it is. It's what your biology says it is--what your genes say it is.

She could not make herself ask whether he would be conscious and aware during these experiments. She hoped he would be.

I suppose that's because we've been displaced again from the center of the universe. We human beings, I mean. Down through history, in myth and even in science, we've kept putting ourselves in the center, and then being evicted.

Secretaries of Astronautics don't have to know much about science. They have to know about politics.

Science now held a position of unique honour among the First Men. This was not so much because it was in this field that the race long ago during its high noon had thought most rigorously, nor because it was through science that men had gained some insight into the nature of the physical world, but rather because the application of scientific principles had revolutionized their material circumstances.

Industry was subordinated to the conscious social goal. Science, formerly the slave of industry, became the free colleague of wisdom.

The slowest-spinning object in the known universe is the nearest planet, Venus. A person could walk faster than it rotates.

These last have been the men of science, the great and heaven-born men of science; and they are few. In

Archimedes, one of the greatest men of science there has ever been, and the father of physics.

In the thirteenth century, however, a really great scientific man appeared, who may be said to herald the dawn of modern science in Europe. This man was Roger Bacon. He

The man I spoke of as coming two hundred years later is Leonardo da Vinci. True

The middle of the next century must be taken as the real dawn of modern science; for the year 1543 marks the publication of the life-work of Copernicus. Nicolas Copernik was his proper name. Copernicus

We have seen how Copernicus placed the earth in its true position in the solar system, making

Ptolemaic system continued

All that Copernicus could suggest on this head was that perhaps the atmosphere might help to carry things forward, and enable them to keep pace with the earth.

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

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Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

The art side of leadership involves orchestrating another performer's science to produce the desired result.

We had taken up aeronautics merely as a sport. We reluctantly entered upon the scientific side of it.

Just as to a man with a hammer, everything is a nail, so in the age of science and technology, everything is a scientific and technical matter to be solved by scientific and technical means.