Science Quotes

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

Joshua Lederberg

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

Julia Roberts

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.

Octavia Butler

Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion] seems the strangest thing in all biology, and, until someone in some laboratory figures out what it is, a candidate for Modern Wonder. (quote originally by Lewis Thomas)

D.T. Max

Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right.

Maroon 5

Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.

Daniel Nathans

Nothing great is ever accomplished by following standards.

Geoffroy Birtz

If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!

Philippe Kahn

Science Fiction Double Feature. Doctor X will build a creature.

Richard O'Brien

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's

Erwin Chargaff

Science demands patience.

Arthur C. Clarke

Now, very few are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

Robertson Davies

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Jim Morrison

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Alan Kay

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

Stephen Hawking

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.

William Standish Knowles

The revolution in scientific ideas just mentioned is primarily logical. It is due to recognition that the very method of physical science, with its primary standard units of mass, space, and time, is concerned with measurements of relations of change, not with individuals as such.

John Dewey

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

Aleister Crowley

Science Fiction: Any scientific acclaim that omits God.

Johnny Hart