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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths, in which there are a great many goddesses and stories of strong women. And I was entranced by them. Then I started reading science fiction very young, and I loved it.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes. I think appreciating the magic of reality, going from 'can't happen' to 'could happen,' is the fundamental appeal of science fiction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fashionable to think that the conservative parties in America are the science deniers. You certainly wouldn't have trouble supporting that claim. But liberals are not exempt.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In science, the kind of evidence matters; all unlikelihoods are not created equal.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For peer review, replication, and objectivity to make any headway on the continuum, for science to find the right answers to anything, there have to be wrong - or at least unlikely - answers.
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- Nov 07, 2020