Quotes of: Exact-science Keyword

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

How To Write Science Fiction

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

How To Write Science Fiction

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

How To Write Science Fiction

Sex doesn't sell anything other than itself

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire

90 percent of all Gillette shavers are bought by women for the men in their lives

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

Progress has not brought about universal happiness...

The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

The Book Of Military Quotations

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

David Brin

Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions of students. They need to be taught the real nature of science, including its limitati...

Ken Ham

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

Polykarp Kusch

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

Stanley Schmidt

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

Michael Polanyi

They say older folks need less sleep, so I must not be old yet.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2012 December

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

The Impact of Science on Society

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

The Sciences of the Artificial

Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.

Socrates in Cyberspace: The Search for the Soul in the 21st Century

It is time to euthanize change management.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space.

The Science of Discworld II: The Globe

The fastest that human spacecraft are likely to achieve in the twenty-first century, I think, is 300 kilometres per second.

The Science of Interstellar

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything