Quotes of: Helen-keller Keyword

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

Bill Watterson

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Chris Carter

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Charles Kettering

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

China Mieville

There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.

David Lee

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

George Santayana

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Gertrude Stein

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

Heinz R. Pagels

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

Harold E. Varmus

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

Irving Babbitt

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Jack Vance

When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey.

Jules Verne

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

James D. Watson

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Kenneth L. Pike

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

Leonard Mlodinow

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.

Lesley Nicol

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Margaret Atwood

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Mary Kay Ash

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Martin H. Fischer

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Michael Pollan