Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh.

John Cheever

Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.

Arthur Smith

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Dorothy Allison

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

James Lasdun

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

Armistead Maupin

I've read only fiction, so I don't know anything actual.

Anna Torv

Nonfiction is never going to die.

Tom Wolfe

Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.

Marriage

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

William Bernbach

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

William Osler

Science is the poetry of reality.

Richard Dawkins

I was particularly good at math and science.

William Standish Knowles

I'm very interested in science.

Candice Millard

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

James Balog

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

P. T. Barnum

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Ronald Graham

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Thomas Huxley

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

Freeman Dyson

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

Anthony Fauci

Science began with a gadget and a trick. The gadget was the wheel; the trick was fire. We have come a long way from the two-wheel cart to the round-the-world transport plane, or from the sparking flint to man-made nuclear fission. Yet I wonder whethe...

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