Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Edward Sapir

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Edward Teller

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

George Meredith

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Henry Petroski

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Jacob Bronowski

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

John Bardeen

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

Jared Diamond

We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I really don't think of myself as a science writer.

James Gleick

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Joseph Wood Krutch

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

Jonathan Miller

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

John Charles Polanyi

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Kary Mullis

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Linus Pauling

I really do think that science has an internal structure, and it makes sense, and we can test it.

Lisa Randall

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

Morris Raphael Cohen

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

Martin Feldstein

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

Michael Shermer