Science Quotes

What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.

Ronald D. Moore

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

Randy Newman

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in th...

Robert Nozick

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Richard Powers

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Richard Powers

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

Robert Quillen

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Rudy Rucker

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Rudy Rucker

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Rudy Rucker

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

Rudy Rucker

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Rudy Rucker

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

Rudy Rucker

Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better rese...

Randy Schekman

Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

R. A. Salvatore

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

Ridley Scott

One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the ...

Ridley Scott

Doing science fiction at a high level is tricky. It's really tricky.

Ridley Scott

I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down.

Ridley Scott

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

Ridley Scott

I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole.

Robert Sheckley

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

Robert Sheckley