Science Quotes

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

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.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Science is what scientists do.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.