976 private quotes tagged science

“I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.” — James Cameron

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“One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.” — Henri Poincare

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“We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.” — Arthur Eddington

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“We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.” — Patrick Stewart

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“I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.” — Mayim Bialik

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“My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.” — Esther Williams

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“The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.” — H. P. Blavatsky

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“Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.” — Henri Poincare

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“If we reject science, we reject the common man.” — Naguib Mahfouz

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“Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.” — Denis Leary

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“Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.” — Jared Diamond

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“I do enjoy reading some science fiction.” — Colin Farrell

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“Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.” — Robert Reed

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“I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.” — Marissa Mayer

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“Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.” — Leon Kass

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“I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.” — Ethan Hawke

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“I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.” — Larry Wall

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“We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.” — Kevin J. Anderson

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“I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.” — Carter Burwell

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“I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.” — Robert Ballard

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“Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.” — Sydney Smith

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“Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.” — Edward Sapir

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“There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.” — Leon Kass

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“In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.” — Adam Savage

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“We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.” — Jaron Lanier

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