Science quotes

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

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

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

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.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.