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Science Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION,…
- Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there…
- In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
- The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into…
- I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
- I was a very keen reader of science fiction.
- It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star…
- Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
- Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop…
- [Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it!
- It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
- Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural…
- But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.
- People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't…
- I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.
- I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who…
- When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
More Science Quotes
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov