Quotes of: Modern-science Keyword

I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.

Ridley Scott

I think you can get away with being a bit more political in science fiction.

Rupert Sanders

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

Sebastian Arcelus

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

Sally Ride

The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers.

Sheri S. Tepper

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

Terry Pratchett

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

William Kirby

I was always attracted to science fiction movies.

Tina Turner

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This i...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying tha...

The Grammar of Science

[T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either s...

Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk

I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe...

Brandon Sanderson

It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Angels & Demons

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Oscar Wilde

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

Miriam Allen de Ford

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Edsger Dijkstra

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

Joseph Rotblat

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

Keisha Castle-Hughes