Quotes of: Sciences Keyword

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Pope John Paul II

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Chris Carter

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

China Mieville

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

Faran Tahir

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

Ivan Reitman

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

John Carmack

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Jack Vance

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Margaret Atwood

The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.

Mike Johanns

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Michio Kaku

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

Otto Wallach

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

Paul Krugman

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Rudy Rucker

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Rudy Rucker

Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.

Ridley Scott

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.

Sherwood Smith