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If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.
~ Joss Whedon
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
~ Maya Lin
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
~ Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox
There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.
~ Richard Dawkins
As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".
~ Albert Einstein
It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.
~ Lembit Opik
When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
~ Brandon Sanderson
My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.
~ Astley Cooper
For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.
~ Ahmed H. Zewail
[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.
~ Raymond Cattell
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse.
~ Mike Lee
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
~ Ian Hickson
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.
~ Rudolf Virchow
I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means
~ Clifford Geertz
There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
~ Anatole France
Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
~ James M. Barrie
History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.
~ Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.
~ Douglas Adams
There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth.
~ Roy Blunt
And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
~ Samuel Butler
A review of the science suggests that uncertainty is so high as to raise a good prospect that mandatory green house gas reductions will produce little or no environmental benefit.
~ Kenneth P. Green
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.
~ David Bohm
Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.
~ Alison Hawthorne Deming