Science quotes

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

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

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Science is all metaphor.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.