Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

Life

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light‐years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that s...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

For centuries the church has stood by while science picked away at religion bit by bit. Debunking miracles. Training the mind to overcome the heart. Condemning religion as the opiate of the masses. They denounce God as a hallucination - a delusional ...

Angels & Demons

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to b...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surpr...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation.

Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews. Volume 2

Science is all about proving theories and understanding the universe. Science folds everything into neat logical well-explained packages. The fey are magical capricious illogical and unexplainable. Science cannot prove the existence of faeries so nat...

The Iron King

Everybody is always touting the division between religion and science.... That division is based on a false premise. It simply doesn't exist. The first sciences developed from a desire to prove the existence of God. In that sense, science and religio...

The Last Good Man

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

The Waorani carry out a similar diet with their arrow poison, called curare or, in their language, oomae. This is another amazing product of the indigenous science, a most sophisticated technology that the Waorani extrapolated from an ancient myth.

Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon

If science is defined or understood as a mode of seeking knowledge, a means of interpreting nature in a way that can be demonstrated to others, then the plant-medicine traditions of the Amazon as they have been practiced constitute an authentic scien...

Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end...

Nikola Tesla

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare...

Linus Torvalds

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

leave me. And it was a great sense of relief. The

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

Most writing is done between the mind and the hand, not between the hand and the page.

Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft