Quotes of: Sound-science Keyword

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

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

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