Science Quotes

One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.

~ Ridley Scott

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

~ E. O. Wilson

Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

~ Sam Harris

As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.

~ Steven Sinofsky

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

~ John Langdon

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

~ Lawrence M. Krauss

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.

~ Martin Rees

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

~ James Dyson

By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.

~ Lawrence M. Krauss

Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they have construed their own science-like universe, known as Intelligent Design, and eagerly jump on every tidbit of information that seems to go their way.

~ Frans De Waal

I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.

~ Neill Blomkamp

No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that.

~ Sandra Bullock

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

~ David Mamet

You can't be a 21st-century science fiction writer writing about Mars without doing tips of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs, to Ray Bradbury, to H.G. Wells, to the guys who first put it in the public imagination that Mars was an exciting place.

~ Robert J. Sawyer

I was always extremely creative. I was very artistic and never strong with numbers or science. I wanted to be an artist or a fashion designer. I wanted to be something that allowed for a lot of imagination.

~ Whitney Wolfe

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

~ Cyril Connolly

We especially need imagination in science.

~ Maria Mitchell

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.

~ Nicolas Cage

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

~ Michio Kaku

When James Bond presses the watch and the car explodes, the writer doesn't go into the science of it. One should leave it to the leap of faith. I have tried to explain as much as possible, and what I can't, I have left it to people's imagination.

~ Ravi Subramanian

Regrettably, with '2001' having a title that had a year in it, science fiction essentially set itself up in the public's imagination as saying, 'Here's what you get if you wait to that year.' Well, we all waited till that year, and we didn't get anything at all like that.

~ Robert J. Sawyer

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

~ Paul Klee

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

~ Freeman Dyson

Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

~ Nate Mendel

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

~ Joseph Crowley

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

~ Sidney Hillman

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

~ Martin Rees

It takes a long time for a country to build a strong base in science, but only a short time to destroy it. Germany was a sad example. It was a world leader in the sciences for more than a century, until its science base was demolished during the Nazi era, and the country ceded its position to the United States.

~ Torsten Wiesel

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

~ Thomas Sowell

Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.

~ Ramez Naam

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

~ Richard Dawkins

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

~ Richard Dawkins

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.

~ Seth Shostak

The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism.

~ Jon Oringer

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.

~ Huston Smith

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.

~ Charles Vest

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

~ N. K. Jemisin