Quotes of: Exact-science Keyword

We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

My first clue time travel could be possible was in the barber's chair the day before my girlfriend's funeral.

Masters of Time: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Time Travel Anthology

But nothing compared to the reality of the magnificent Light Storm of 2015, nothing, that is, except the almond shaped emerald eyes of his passenger.

Masters of Time: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Time Travel Anthology

Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not sc...

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.

Screwtape Letters

Among the many who fruitlessly attempted thoughout history to create a time machine, one individual actually succeeded. He was surprisingly not a human.

Strange Science Fiction and Fantasy Omnibus

Owen remarked "The basis of science and art is magical - vice versa, magic is art and science. It goes both ways. There's not ever black and white...in magic or in anything to my way of thinking.

Sweet Sorcerer

I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.

Science and Humanism, Physics In Our Time

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

Shaping Things

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).

The Pleasure of the Text

Borman's dumping urine. Urine [in] approximately one minute." Two lines further along, we see Lovell saying, "What a sight to behold!

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement

The theory of emptiness…is the deep recognition that there is a fundamental disparity between the way we perceive the world, including our own existence in it, and the way things actually are.

The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection

'Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else o...

David Gerrold

Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns

Stephen Baxter

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too com...

Noam Chomsky