“What was the nature of the universe into which she had been born? Why did it exist at all? If it had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It is a well-known established fact throughout the many-dimensional worlds of the multiverse that most really great discoveries are owed to one… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Poincaré’s phase space viewpoint has proved to be so useful that nowadays you’ll find it in every area of science – and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Mind you, I do recall that Salman Rushdie actually came second in a science fiction writing competition organized by Gollancz in the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Lord Vetinari, the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, poked at the ink in his inkwell. There was ice in it. "Don't you even have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“IT WASN’T A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT. It should have been, but that’s the weather for you. For every mad scientist who’s… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's a lot of science in it, and as Slartibartfast [in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] said: 'I am a great… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“To live in harmony with nature, we must know how to sing the same song as nature. To do that, we must… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The best research is the research that you don't know that you are doing. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Because the universe was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a prospector crouched over a mountain… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest possible particle of magic, was succesfully demonstrated to be made… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It is now known to science that there are many more dimensions than the classical four. Scientists say that these don’t normally… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We live in a science fiction universe. We have done for a long time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He’d have been a little bit happier if there’d been a demon or some sort of magic. Something simple and understandable. He… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a night that never comes to an end.... The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
![“There's a lot of science in it, and as Slartibartfast [in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] said: 'I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.' I've never, ever been able to do one. I remember one occasion at Warwick University, when Jack and Ian were at their wits' end…” quote by Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a00/terry-pratchett-19_equations_there-s-a-lot-of-science-in-it-and-as-sl_800026.jpg)
