2225 Science Quotes for You to Enjoy

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty. James D. Watson

Truth Science Arrogance Simple Once Characterized Would Would-Be Pretty Spirit Both Adventure Well Moves Youthful Belief Found

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science. James D. Watson

Life Good You Science Opportunity Giving Has-Been Find Students Highly Know Motivated Been Intelligent Trying Them Whole Basically

It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring scripture and myths. James D. Watson

Science Natural Back Possibly Religious Religious Beliefs Date Could Inspiring Myths Times Scripture Natural Phenomena Many Beliefs Phenomena Coincidence

'Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With 'The Double Helix,' no one had done it before, but I thought I'd try. James D. Watson

Life Science Try Thought Girl Before Personal Life More Attempt Had No-One Genes Mix Than Personal Done Double Even

I hate science fiction. James Dyson

Science Hate Science Fiction Fiction

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them. James E. Gunn

Work Science Try Drive First Build Own Approach Tried My Own Rather Take Idea Discard Content Science Fiction Narrative Than Child Fiction Acknowledge Them Certainly Fascination Inner Inner Child

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope. James E. Gunn

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being. James G. Frazer

Man Science Single Too Side Our Consideration Complex Apt Only Selecting Abstract Like His Being Mankind View Letters

I take the view that we all have permission to be a little baffled by quantum information science and algorithmic information theory. James Gleick

Science Take Baffled Quantum Permission Information Little View Theory

Science fiction writers aren't in the prediction business; they're in the speculation business, using 'hasn't happened' or 'hasn't happened yet' to create entertaining scenarios that may or may not anticipate future realities. James Gunn

Future Business Science Entertaining Scenarios Writers Science Fiction Science Fiction Writers Anticipate May Fiction Fiction Writers Happened Prediction Realities Create Using Speculation

I've tried to be a straight scientist doing the science and reporting it as best I can. James Hansen

Best Science Tried Scientist Doing Reporting Straight

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science. James Henry Breasted

Achievement Science Natural Unity Study Since Perhaps Conception Greatest Greatest Achievement Historical Human Place Which Gained Natural Science Career

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. James Henry Breasted

History Man Science First Gave Ancient Recognized Historian Place Who

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so. James Lovelock

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards. James Lovelock

You Science Way Ghost One Thing Religious Strongly Data Put Feel Sin Because Got Whatsoever Any Quite The One Thing Literally Against Holy Holy Ghost Standards Ever Thing

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. James Mark Baldwin

Science Other More Had Period Scientific Than Any Psychology Less

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark. James Rollins

Me History Science Looking Mark Bit Piece Makes Always Go Question Question Mark What If Whenever Ends Novel Things Start Two

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation. James Surowiecki

I know that science is very interested in answers, and I'm just happy with a good question. James Turrell

Good Science Happy Know Answers Question Very Just Interested

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. James Van Allen

Science Magazines Had Fan Avid Popular Mechanics Set

I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more interesting, it seems a shame to sort of re-live something in half-measures. Jamie Bamber

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