Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don’t expect.
War is the science of destruction.
I don’t like science because I don’t think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It’s a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.
Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.
If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation.
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It’s their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was ‘Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.’
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.
When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?
One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
I’ve always been interested in science – one of my favourite books is James Watson’s ‘Molecular Biology of the Gene.’
There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.
What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we’re surrounded by things we can’t see.
There’s no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there’s no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
Science and religion are both the same thing. They’re there; they’re life. If it’s not science, it’s not a fact.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.
