Quotes of: Sciences Keyword

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

Terry Pratchett

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Vernor Vinge

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

William Mapother

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

Neil LaBute

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Albert Einstein

The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Science and industry, and their progress, might turn out to be the most enduring thing in the modern world. Perhaps any speculation about a coming collapse of science and industry is, for the present and for a long time to come, nothing but a dream; ...

Culture and Value

You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy....

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

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the propheti...

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

The ‘stream’ we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advance...

Galileo Galilei

If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that it shall be left in undisturbed possession of what the theologian and metaphysician please to term its 'legitimate...

The Grammar of Science

Science tries to record and explain the factual character of the natural world, whereas religion struggles with spiritual and ethical questions about the meaning and proper conduct of our lives. The facts of nature simply cannot dictate correct moral...

The Hedgehog, the Fox & the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science & the Humanities

Although science is not easy in complex human systems, we cannot afford to throw our hands in the air and give up. It may take decades, but it is a game worth playing and winning.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority based on truth. Man should be governed by science alo...

Les Misérables

‎By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum the...

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

In the twentieth century, science has been everything and the arts almost nothing by comparison. As a result, many artists now pretend to be scientists. They try to imitate the strategies of science. Paintings that talk. Sculpture that swims. Books t...

Views from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal

The question of the relation between modernity and postmodernity revolves around the issue of 'legitimation.' Modernity, then, appeals to science to legitimate its claim - and by 'science' we simply mean the notion of a universal, autonomous reason. ...

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museu...

Tragic Sense of Life

I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I woul...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Man! What are you? Who are you? Just a shadow in this universe! You always forget this and the truth will always remind you what you really are! Do you want to be a real thing, not just a shadow? Improve your science ten thousand times; improve your ...

Mehmet Murat ildan

As long as scepticism is based on a sound understanding of science it is invaluable, for that is how science progresses. But poor criticism can lead those who are unfamiliar with the science involved into doubting everything about climate change pred...

The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth