Science Quotes - page 87

You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the causes and effects of man's industry, and shows how it may be best applied. (William Stanley Jevons)
Christ has been much misinterpreted by the world. Even the most elementary principles of his teachings have been desecrated, and their esoteric depths have been forgotten. They have been crucified at the hands of dogma, prejudice, and cramped understanding. Genocidal wars have been fought, people have been burned as witches and heretics, on the presumed authority of man-made doctrines of Christianity. How to salvage the immortal teachings from the hands of ignorance? We must know Jesus as an Oriental Christ, a supreme yogi who manifested full mastery of the universal science of God-union, and thus could speak and act as a savior with the voice and authority of God. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
Nothing is sacred to you, Mr. Munro. You base your beliefs on the products of human thought, so it could hardly be otherwise. You might believe in certain things, but you do not have faith. That comes with submission to the force of divine revelation.” "So, because I don't have what I think of as superstitions, because I believe we just happen to exist, and believe in... science, evolution, whatever; I'm not as... worthy as somebody who has faith in an ancient book and a cruel, desert God? View quote
Iain Banks
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. View quote
Iain Banks
You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history. View quote
Iain Banks
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam. View quote
Frederik Pohl
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. View quote
Frederik Pohl
People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. View quote
Frederik Pohl
I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction. View quote
Frederik Pohl
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it. View quote
Frederik Pohl
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method. (Frederik Pohl)
I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. View quote
Frederik Pohl
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want. View quote
Frederik Pohl
It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations. View quote
Frederik Pohl
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great). View quote
Frederik Pohl
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Life is not an exact science, it is an art. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military. View quote
C. Wright Mills
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. View quote
Robert K. Merton
The ethos of science involves the functionally necessary demand that theories or generalizations be evaluated in [terms of] their logical consistency and consonance with facts. (Robert K. Merton)
I wanted to create an interesting scifi universe that didn't violate the laws of physics, and that means that you're limited to staying inside the solar system. I also wanted to get away from the ship-centric style of science fiction. Star Trek is ship-centric and it's all about the Enterprise - there are many other examples. What if we decided to get away from the obsession with ships and instead thought about big machines and structures that might be used to create a civilization inside the solar system? View quote
Neal Stephenson
I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God. View quote
Sean M. Carroll
Wonder, Carlyle declared, is the beginning of philosophy. It is not wonder, but rather the social enthusiasm which revolts from the sordidness of mean streets and the joylessness of withered lives, that is the beginning of economic science. Here, if in no other field, Comte's great phrase holds good: "It is for the heart to suggest our problems; it is for the intellect to solve them.... The only position for which the intellect is primarily adapted is to be the servant of the social sympathies." View quote
Arthur Cecil Pigou
This science gave me a taste for the arts. It is Number that gives value to sounds and silences, lights and shadows, forms and spaces. Michelangelo and Bach seemed to me like divine mathematicians [calculateurs]. Already I felt that only mathematics enables works that can last. Whether as a result of patient study, or of a stormy [fulgurante] intuition, number alone can reduce all our diversities of feeling to the strict unity of a mass, a fresco, or a sculpted head. View quote
Jean Metzinger