Quotes About Society

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

My goal is to try to tell the public that America could use more science and technology in all aspects of its life.

Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.