Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the a...
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are placed under new circumstances, and their diversified pr...
In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical science, laden with history's inevitable imponderables. We evolutionary biologists ca...
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whe...
Louie: Where'd they send you? James Cole: 1990. Louie: '90! How was it? Good drugs? Lots of pussy? Hey, Bob, you do the job? You find out the big info? Army of the 12 Monkeys? James Cole: I was supposed to be 1996. Louie: Science ain't an exact scien...
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, ...
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does conc...
One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazines as well as at academic conferences, the claim is made that that belief in the success of science in describing the workings of the world is no lon...
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
Science is the poetry of reality.
There is no truth, only science and fiction.
I was particularly good at math and science.
I'm very interested in science.
Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
