Science Quotes

"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."

"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth."

"God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator."

"My father was a first reader in the Christian Science Church, which is similar to being a preacher. There was no drinking, smoking or cursing."

"GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future."

"For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did."

"Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters."

"No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest."

"I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality."

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

"Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans."

"To me it's no accident that all the symphony orchestras around the world tune up to the note A. And A is 440 cycles, except in Germany where it's 444. But the universe is 450 cycles. So what I'm trying to say is, I think it's God's voice, melody especially. Counterpoint, retrograde inversion, harmony... that's the science and the craft."

"Art and science have their meeting point in method."

"We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other."

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

"Jurisdictions across the U.S. are snapping up algorithms as tools to help judges make bail and bond decisions. They're being sold as race- and gender-neutral assessments that allow judges to use science in determining whether someone will behave if released from jail pending trial."

"A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless."

"The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi."

"I think that prog rock is the science fiction of music. Science fiction speculates on what the future might be and look like and how we'll get there, and yet there's always a central theme of humanity, or there should be. Progressive rock has the same concept of exploration into the parts of the music world that hasn't been explored."

"I really believe there are no borders for science."

"Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science."

"Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense."

"Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out."

"I make ancient wisdom relevant, but through modern research and science."

"We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist."

"It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them."

"In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by."

"I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric."

"I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting."

"I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent."

"Science is but an image of the truth."

"'Star Trek' is science fiction. 'Star Wars' is science fantasy. Based on the episodes I worked on, I think with 'Star Wars: Clone Wars,' we're starting to see a merging, though. It does deal, philosophically, with some of the issues of the time, which is always something 'Star Trek' was known for."

"Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug."

"Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."

"Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once."

"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 science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years."

"No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom."

"I want very much to communicate science to as wide an audience as possible, but not at a cost of dumbing down, and not at a cost in getting things right."

"Luckily, even when people are shouting lies, the truth is undamaged. Science doesn't matter what you believe."

"Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10."

"We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics."

"Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science."

"We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology."

"The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"

"Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich."

"You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field."

"When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction."

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."

"I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science."