Quotes of: Rocket-science Keyword

Uncle Les: [to Paquita] Ooh I bet you go off like a rocket!

Dead Alive

Groot: I am Groot. Rocket Raccoon: Asleep for the danger, awake for the money, as per frickin' usual.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Groot: I am Groot! Rocket Raccoon: I know they're the only friends we've ever had!

Guardians of the Galaxy

Roy Lee: [after a rocket launch] Holy shit, it's headed for the mine. [beat, then runs]

October Sky

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.

Buzz Aldrin

What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature. We have room for everybody, and we are extraordinarily open to genuine experimentation.

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy

The inability of Darwinian psychology to account for human reasoning is devastating to its pretensions to be a science. The prestige of science depends on the application of highly advanced practical and theoretical reason. A 'science' that is incomp...

Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science

He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science lea...

Mehmet Murat ildan

We have a duty tonight. Everybody, and guys this for you as well because I know you know women. You have a duty tonight. You only have to tell one other person what you heard. Just tell them what you heard, or ask them have you ever heard of this? If...

Whoopi Goldberg

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

John Maeda

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences V1: Founded Upon Their History

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences V1: Founded Upon Their History

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

Pyotr Uspensky

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

Rod Serling

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Terry Pratchett

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Blaise Pascal

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

David Chalmers

In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

John Noble

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

Neil Gaiman

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.

Octavia Butler