Science quotes

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.

Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.