Quotes of: Rocket-science Keyword

When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.

John Rhys-Davies

I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.

J. Michael Straczynski

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

J. Michael Straczynski

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

John Sladek

I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.

Lois Lowry

The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.

Lisa Randall

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

Melvin Calvin

Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.

M. John Harrison

I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

Magdi Yacoub

There's no one 'right' way of making a science fiction movie; there's no one way of making any kind of movie, really!

Nicolas Roeg

I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.

Paul Bloom

Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.

Paul Verhoeven

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

Richard Dawkins

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Robert A. Heinlein

If there is no fundamental science then there is no basis for applied science. We have to strike a balance. 23 years ago the World Wide Web was born here. It has changed the world dramatically.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Rudy Rucker

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Rudy Rucker

The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.

Rupert Sheldrake

I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.

Seth MacFarlane

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

Sally Ride