Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Diderot

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.

Ted Chiang

I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

Ted Cruz

Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.

Brent Spiner

I don't read Science Fiction.

Booth Tarkington

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Henry Petroski

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Sydney Smith

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

Seth McClung

It's my birthday, too. I'd like to talk to you more about the science of pitching." ()

I'm ecstatic. I think it's a win for science, a win for students and a win for the state of Ohio.

Jean Chretien

Each one was a hero. Their contribution to science and space exploration will never be forgotten.

Audra McDonald

I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for me! There is something in my gut that immediately responds. There's no science to it.

Dan Simmons

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Michael Dorn

But now they have it down to a real science where it's about an hour.

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'

Daniel Webster

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

David Leavitt

'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic engine? He never built it. ... I have an analytic machine of my own-right here.' He taps his own skull.

David Bohm

The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever be subjected to experimental proof.

David Bohm

Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.

David Bohm

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Stephen Jay Gould

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Stephen Jay Gould

Honorable errors do not count as failures in science, but as seeds for progress in the quintessential activity of correction.

Stephen Jay Gould

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.

Stephen Jay Gould

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

Stephen Jay Gould

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Stephen Jay Gould

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

We've got a long way to go to get to the science orbit.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

Ram Dass

Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?

Kurt Vonnegut

Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.