Science Quotes · Page 144

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

— Susan Sontag

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

— Eoin Colfer

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

— Robert Kuttner

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

— Northrop Frye

“For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere).”

— Bill Bryson

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

— Miguel de Icaza

“Without the possibility of error and real indeterminacy implied by the quantum theory, human liberty is meaningless.”

— Heinz R. Pagels

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

— Ray Bradbury

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life -…

— Roger Tory Peterson

“You’re not behind—you’re just living your own story. Stop chasing someone else’s timeline and start trusting your own pace.”

— Felecia Etienne

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve…

— Thomas Jefferson

As geology is essentially a historical science, the working method of the geologist resembles that of the historian. This makes the personality…

— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen

In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of…

— David S. Goyer

The old Atlantean sciences from the tribe of enlightenment, of which there are only a few remnants and chards left in this…

— Frederick Lenz

My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest…

— Craig Venter

“With one hand disturbing a colony of parasitic life forms in his uncombed hair, he yawned loudly. ‘Morning Steve,’ Thomas said scratching…

— A.R. Merrydew

The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its…

— Benjamin Peirce

Plastic debris in the ocean was thought to accumulate in big patches, mostly in subtropical gyres - big currents that converge in…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

Most of today's film actresses are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly…

— Helen Lawrenson

No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues…

— Leon Botstein

Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I…

— Anonymous

“Whether we like the idea or not, humanity has the job of managing the planet, a process that can be in direct…

— Peter Doherty

The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'

— Jon Stewart

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

— Alfred North Whitehead

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

— James Dyson

scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

— Natalie Angier

I never forget a gay face. I have what scientists call a homographic memory. -Lee McDermott

— Desperate Housewives

“It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.”

— Carl Sagan

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

— Karl Popper

Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Researchers at Yale University have shown that educated people are more unshakable in their convictions than anybody.”

— Rutger Bregman

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

— Albert Einstein

“✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.”

— David L Lloyd

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

— Stephen Hawking

The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.

— Robert X. Cringely

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

— Richard P. Feynman

Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do…

— Linus Pauling

Not all SF or fantasy has to inspire new scientists and engineers.

— David Brin