Science Quotes - page 8

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter. (Friedrich Schiller)
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. View quote
George Washington
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. View quote
Octavia Butler
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. View quote
Octavia Butler
A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. View quote
John Templeton
Do not merely practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; it deserves that, for only art and science can exalt man to divinity. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works. View quote
Jim Al-Khalili
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. View quote
Alan Lightman
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet. View quote
Ann Druyan
Recently there's been a resurgence of rejection of evolution - possibly one of the most concrete and indisputable discoveries of science. To the extent that we deny this, we're wandering in the darkness. (Ann Druyan)
Witchcraft to the ignorant,.... Simple science to the learned. View quote
Leigh Brackett
Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. View quote
Lewis Thomas
In any case I hold that there must arise a science of the development of economic forms and relations. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah. View quote
Afrika Bambaataa
In science, read, by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. View quote
Will Durant
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man. (Bertrand Russell)
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. View quote
Edmund Hillary
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. View quote
Bill Watterson
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. View quote
Isaac Asimov