Books Quote by Douglas Preston

“Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a science fiction…

— Yvonne Coleman

The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other…

— John William Strutt

[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

“What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

— Alan Alda

“Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true." -…

— Anonymous

“The practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the…

— Brian Cox

“People had no sense of history, they learned about chemistry and biology and astronomy and thought that these matters had always been the proper…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Sometimes science fiction does become scientific discovery.”

— John Brockman

“We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the…

— Maria Montessori

A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never…

— Robert Reed

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

— Aaron Klug