Top 1000 Science Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.

One can not impede scientific progress.

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?

I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

The culinary world is a fascinating place that has been influenced over the centuries by culture, religion, fashion, war, art, science and, more recently, globalisation.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.

The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

'Dasavatharam' is science fiction, a multi-crore budgeted film worth Rs 50 to 60 crore and ahead of its time.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

Hip-hop is my vehicle for scientific enlightenment. It wasn't until my music career matured where I was exposed to science as an intellectual pursuit.

There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.

One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a matter of denouncing the illusion, the false infinite, the infinity of religion and all of the theologico-erotic-oneiric myths in which it is expressed.

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'