For a genre that's about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards lately. Nostalgia is what sells best,… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world,… — Uri Geller Copy Share Image
When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity,… — George Porter Copy Share Image
In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
I'm a big proponent of mandatory computer science education. I think the first step is educating policymakers that technology is changing the… — Reshma Saujani Copy Share Image
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“For the man in the street, the philosophies of opposites, particularly Good and Evil, have served as a torture chamber, a crucifix… — Christopher S. Hyatt Copy Share Image
“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Probably the only people left who think that economics deserves a Nobel Prize are economists. It confirms their conceit that they're doing… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
“The venture into space is meaningless unless it coincides with a certain interior expansion, an ever-growing universe within, to correspond with the… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“In a hundred years they may both be sciences. Fine. But today a person who learns the rules of art well is… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“in the same sense in which Kant held that the empirical sciences depend on some mental abilities – intuition and categories” — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can… — Arthur M. Wellington Copy Share Image
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
It's not fair that kids feel like they have to be naturally gifted at math and science, but with , it's often… — Peyton List Copy Share Image
We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
'Doctor Who' is part of my science fictional DNA. You could take it out of me, and I'd probably still have ended… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
I'm probably in the bottom 25 percent of athletes in the big leagues, just on pure athletic capability. But I've taught myself,… — Trevor Bauer Copy Share Image
I think that some of the archetypes and works of science fiction that have pierced pop culture and stayed there are the… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye,… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
“Demon” means “knowledge” in Greek. “Science” means “knowledge” in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true.… — Deborah M. Gordon Copy Share Image
Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I took Pascal, and I was terrible. And then, when I went to NYU, I minored in computer science. I just couldn't… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
“In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even as a kid enthralled with science fiction, I wondered about the role of people in the long-term evolution of the Earth,… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image