Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.

Scarlett Thomas

What if I told you every single person in America - every single person on Earth - is African? With a small scrape of cells from the inside of anyone's cheek, the science of genetics can even prove it.

Spencer Wells

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Thomas Sowell

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

Walter Lang

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

William Bell Riley

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

Sally Ride

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

Justin Guarini

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

Eric Kandel

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

Martin H. Fischer

It was clear to me from the start that I would need to combine both a medical degree with a research qualification, to keep at the cutting edge of medical science and technology.

Susan Lim

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Woodrow Wilson

Your Ancestors Called it Magic, but You Call it Science. I Come From a Land Where They Are One and the Same.

Life

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.

Virchand Gandhi

Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.

Wilhelm Dilthey

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Will Durant

Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.

Wolfgang Köhler

If you look at your average contemporary person, the potential for tragedy is immense. The people and things we love and value are strewn across the globe. Any number of health disasters can befall you or them. The truth is depressing. We are going t...

Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation: Self-Deception and the Riddle of the Confabulation

Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of time coaching students individually on their writing and thinking. Strangely enough, I still had a lot of energy for this ...

The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial. We know perfectly well, on a conscious level, that these characters “do not exist,” or in any case do not exist in...

Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles