Science fiction is something I never understood.
What’s going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I haven’t decided yet.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.
We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems.
My model for Kirk was Horatio Hornblower from the C.S. Forester sea stories. Shatner was open-minded about science fiction and a marvelous choice.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
I was a political science student.
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.
My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I’m a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.
Leave the atom alone.
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.
Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed.
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
Politics is not an exact science. That’s why in school I loved mathematics. Everything in mathematics was clear to me.
The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they’re having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
The planet’s hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I’ve found that as the world around me darkens, all I really want to do is grasp for more light.
The scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious diseases and counterterrorism; in particular, ‘clean energy’ research deserves far higher priority. And science and technology are the prime routes to tackling these issues.
Computer science teaches and nurtures the type of thinking that 21st century citizens will need to address 21st century issues. We cannot know with any certainty what those challenges will be, but we can arm our students with the tools needed to address them.
Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just ‘virtual reality.’
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it’s about human beings with human emotions.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don’t look in other directions.
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.
It’s funny, I hear people say I’m faking all this science stuff. That’s the furthest thing from the truth. It’s literally what I have to do to play and perform at this level.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
I grew up reading science fiction.
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 needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.
The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
My degree is in biology, and it will always be my first love. Evolution, ecology, genetics – they were the textbooks I was devouring as a teenager, and it was there that my love of science grew.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.
The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a person’s chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective.
I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him.
