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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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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
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Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
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Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.
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Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
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The scientific content of Genesis 1-11 holds special significance for me because it revolutionized my thinking and, thus, changed my life's direction. Until I reached my late teens, my singular passion was science, astronomy in particular. My life's purpose was to learn more about the universe; nothing beyond that really interested me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fundamentalist Christians, adhering to what is termed 'creation science,' loudly promote the scientific accuracy of the Bible, but they sift or reinterpret science through the tiny mesh of their ideological filter. Not much real science gets through.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the many things that surprised me about 'Wool' is how many of its fans don't consider themselves science fiction readers.
- Nov 07, 2020