Science Quotes

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

Sally Ride

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

Alva Myrdal

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

Sally Ride

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

Albert Einstein

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Kenneth L. Pike

Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

Mark Lawrence

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

Paul Nurse

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Henry A. Wallace

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Elizabeth Moon

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Jules Verne

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Pete Rose

I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit. They are nothing but vicious animals. They are greedy, self-indulgent, predatory dollar-chasers

Ayn Rand

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Ben Goldacre

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.

William Petersen

I've always been interested in science fiction.

Martin Landau

The people who actually make the advances in theoretical physics don't think in these categories that the philosophers and the historians of science subsequently invent for them

Stephen Hawking

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Evan Esar

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain.

Julian May

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

Frank Knight