976 private quotes tagged science

“Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.” — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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“But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.” — Ivan Pavlov

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“I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.” — Jack Vance

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“Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.” — Ann Druyan

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“But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.” — David Brin

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“The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.” — Tom Baker

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“Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.” — Richard Le Gallienne

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“Science is a self-sufficient activity.” — Jonathan Miller

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“With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.” — Dwight Schultz

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“I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.” — Jeri Ryan

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“That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.” — Tony Snow

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“I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.” — Jean M. Auel

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“We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.” — Fredrik Bajer

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“I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.” — Jean M. Auel

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“I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast.” — Ivan Reitman

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“I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.” — Fred Saberhagen

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“I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.” — Jean M. Auel

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“Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.” — Jean M. Auel

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“The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.” — David Hilbert

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“Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.” — Seth Lloyd

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“I quite enjoy science fiction.” — Lexa Doig

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“How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.” — David Hilbert

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“I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.” — Heinz R. Pagels

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“Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.” — Seth Lloyd

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“Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.” — Brian Aldiss

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