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I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
~ Samuel Johnson
Science is prediction, not explanation.
~ Fred Hoyle
Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!
~ W. H. Auden
What's needed today, now, more than ever, is 'Star Peace' for there is an ominous, mutual threat to all science fiction. It's called 'Twilight'. And it is really, really bad.
~ George Takei
Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.
~ Gian-Carlo Rota
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature.
~ James Delingpole
Let the historic dissection begin. Man-made global warming is a dying market and a zombie science.
~ Joanne Nova
Superfast beings shouldn't piss off the comics geek-girl.
~ Gini Koch, Touched by an Alien
Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they're crazy** some are dumb, too, but that's another story.
~ Gregory Cochran
It is an extravagant gesture, ' she said, turning to the torpedo, 'which is just the sort of gesture I like.
~ Kamy Wicoff, Wishful Thinking
Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.
~ Wolfgang Köhler
As a scientist I have come to learn that information isonly as valuable as its source.
~ Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
You should stay and keep me company, so I don't get lonely.""You don't seem like the type of guy who gets lonely.""Is that a compliment or an insult?"Analia only shrugged.
~ Kiersten Fay, Demon Possession
I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.
~ Max F. Perutz
Your Ancestors Called it Magic, but You Call it Science. I Come From a Land Where They Are One and the Same.
~ Thor Odinson
…all that goes under the name of science is not necessarily scientific, and that all that goes under the name of health-care will not necessarily care for your health.
~ Neville Mandy
Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.
~ Anne-Rae Vasquez, Doubt
Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.
~ Gail Carriger, Soulless
Her weight settled on her back foot as she crossed her arms over her chest and stared at him, now legitimately baffled."How delusional are you, aliens in your head notwithstanding?
~ G.S. Jennsen, Vertigo
Sci-fi doesn't show me much about alien's nature but shows a lot about North American nature.
~ Robin Sacredfire
...and now over to our foriegn allegory correspondant, Barv Tweezman." ~The Shielding of Mortimer Townes
~ Montgomery Thompson
Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.
~ R. Curtis Venture
We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs