Accounts Quote by Alan Dean Foster

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

— Rudy Rucker

Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves…

— Gregory Maguire

It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.

— Dan Fogler

The real name for 'science' is magic.

— Harlan Ellison

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

— Herbert M. Shelton

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

— Coventry Patmore

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking…

— Neil Gaiman

Metaphysics is a science.

— Gabriel Marcel

Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century…

— Carl Sagan

There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.

— Larry Wilmore

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Science is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

— Carl Sagan