Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?
When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying tha...
[T]he downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that is as lacking in critical thinking as the one of the true believer, and that simply does not help either s...
I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe...
Skinner: You know something about rats, you know you do! Linguini: You know who know, do, whacka-do. Ratta-tatta - Hey, why do they call it that? Skinner: What? Linguini: Ratatouille. It's like a stew, right? Why do they call it that? If you're gonna...
The big drum only sounds well from a distance.
Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.
You cannot wage war without the sound of gunpowder.
It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
when science has killed god, science will be god.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.
In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.
Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.
I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!
