I’ve probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I’ve also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive. – Gardner Dozois
Science is based solely on doubt-based, disinterested examination of the natural and physical world. It is entirely independent of personal belief. There is a very important, fundamental concomitant – that is to accept absolutely nothing whatsoever, for which there is no evidence, as having any fundamental validity. – Harry Kroto
I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It’s basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. – Hans-Ulrich Obrist
When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I’m trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don’t feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read. – Harold E. Varmus
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. – Helena Blavatsky
I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft – meaning experience – there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis. – Henry Mintzberg
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it’s all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That’s consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value. – Greg Graffin
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. – George Bernard Shaw
We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture. – Hannes Alfven
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe. – Harry Dean Stanton
When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn’t develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old. – Harold E. Varmus
Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating – or if it is floating at all. – Huston Smith
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. – Huston Smith
I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production. – Hannah Simone
I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away. – Henry Fonda
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed. – Howard Nemerov
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal. – Hari Kunzru
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers. – Harvey Cushing
What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! – Henrik Ibsen
Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don’t know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don’t have that. Like ‘She Blinded Me With Science.’ It’s a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby. – Greg Graffin
Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it’s no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof. – Greg Graffin
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
The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary. – Hanya Yanagihara
I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn’t find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages – they’re so much more imaginative than science fiction. – Geoff Ryman
My science teachers always encouraged their classes to ‘go out and discover something’ because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it’s truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured. – Greg Graffin
I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I’m not sure writers think of themselves in the same way. – Hanya Yanagihara
