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- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.
- Handing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
- Feign
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- Nov 07, 2020
As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
- Family Tradition
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
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- Nov 07, 2020