- 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
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The general public still thinks that science fiction has nothing to do with their day-to-day lives.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some might argue, biology, my father was and still is a social scientist at the University of Toronto.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction has always used metaphors and disguises, talking about alien civilizations or the future.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of disciplines: quantum computing in Waterloo, paleontology in Alberta, neuroscience at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health in Vancouver, and many more.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if it were literal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bradbury was the one guy who was published in places like the 'Saturday Evening Post.' He was the guy who brought science fiction to the masses. If he hadn't existed, science fiction would have been a well-kept secret in literature instead of a widely consumed phenomenon.
- General Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020