Quotes of: Science-fiction Keyword

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

John Calvin

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

Trofim Lysenko

McMurphy: I'm a goddamn marvel of modern science.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

Robert Winston

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

Charles Krauthammer

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

Charles B. Rangel

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Frederik Pohl

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Henri Poincare

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

John Deacon

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Martin Fleischmann

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

Sebastian Arcelus

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

Sally Ride

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

William Kirby

The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and sta...

The Common Reader

You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's...

Role Models

It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of under...

Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective

You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, b...

Sara Sheridan

Fiction---good fiction, anyway---is dream made flesh, given purpose and drive, and set on a quest to show us the best in us and to give us the power and the tools to dream beyond reality's 'merely good enough' to a vision of what is truly great... .....

Holly Lisle

By appealing to his imagination, a pornographic novel brings the reader’s body into play; libertine fiction appeals only to his mind. The goal of the former is erotic pleasure, or rather the desire to experience erotic pleasure, which the pornograp...

Jean-Marie Goulemot

Mike Erganian: What is the subject of your book? Non fiction? Miles Raymond: Uh, no. It's... it's a novel. Fiction. Yes. Although there is quite a bit from my own life... so I suppose that, technically some of it is nonfiction. Mike Erganian: Good I ...

Sideways

At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This i...

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