Quotes About Influence

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.

Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.

Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see its light shining on you.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

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

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

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on.

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.