The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
I want to make a difference in the world because I believe that's what science is for.
I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.
There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.
All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.
Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.
Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.
