- Nov 07, 2020
Science Quotes
Science taken seriously, and occasionally not.
Most of these quotes come from people genuinely engaged with science, recalling museum trips that sparked early curiosity and admiring mathematics for tackling problems that actually have solutions. For quotes on scientific humor specifically, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Method
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- Nov 07, 2020
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
- Darwin
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
- Art Of War
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020