Quotes of: Exact-science Keyword

Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

R. A. Salvatore

I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.

Sam Harris

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Sally Ride

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

William Shatner

I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11

Walter Mosley

Science is measurement. Measurement is not science but technology.

Khalid Masood

Science fiction is not formulaic.

Octavia E. Butler

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Chuck Jones

Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.

Turgot Collection Pocket Edition

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

George Santayana

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Frank Zappa

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Bertrand Russell

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Cesar Chavez

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Bernard DeVoto

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

Patrice Leconte

It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.

Randy West

In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. And the cumulative worldwi...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indee...

Jawaharlal Nehru

And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmo...

David Brewster