Science Quotes

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Michael Dirda

The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found become part of Science.

Wilhelm Ostwald

True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.

Rabindranath Tagore

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

Carl Sagan

There are no limits to what science can explore.

Ernest Solvay

David Ridenour of The National Center for Public Policy Research says people who claim rising temperatures will lead to more intense hurricanes 'appear to be relying upon political science, not climate science.'

David A. Ridenour

Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.Dava Sobel

Dava Sobel

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

Rosalind Franklin

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Carl Sagan

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Neil Armstrong

Nothing is as engaged as a retentive human brain as uncounted events is inhibited in it

Bashir F. Biodun

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.

James Rollins

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Anton Chekhov

It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

Suman Jyoty Bhante

I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Rudy Rucker

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

David Brin

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

Mark Kurlansky

So there were two worlds: the perceived world, a dimension of adjectives, equations and brush strokes, a surface dazzling with our efforts to render it, but ultimately bearing only our own reflections; and the impenetrable world, the plumbless dark full of latent particles, the primordial cauldron which, like a mother, gives us our being but is a lifelong riddle.

Bia Lowe