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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
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
- Dialects
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- Nov 07, 2020
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.
- Monkey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
- Forest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every student of science, even if he cannot start his journey where his predecessors left off, can at least travel their beaten track more quickly than they could while they were clearing the way: and so before his race is run, he comes to virgin forest and becomes himself a pioneer.
- Inquiring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is always inquiring.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I was going to be a veterinarian. I was good in science and in math, and I loved animals.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.
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