3 December 2020 Bill Frist Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.
3 December 2020 James C. Maxwell All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
3 December 2020 Iain Banks I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you’re frightened of is to make fun of it. That’s why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
3 December 2020 James D. Watson Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
3 December 2020 Edward Sapir Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
3 December 2020 Lewis Thomas The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.
3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
3 December 2020 Charles Babbage A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
3 December 2020 Rudy Rucker One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
3 December 2020 Ashley Montagu Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
3 December 2020 Edward Sapir English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.
3 December 2020 W. H. Auden When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
3 December 2020 Jared Diamond Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction – namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
3 December 2020 John B. S. Haldane And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
3 December 2020 Ursula K. Le Guin If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
3 December 2020 David Brin Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
3 December 2020 John Templeton I’m really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
3 December 2020 Walter Jon Williams Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
3 December 2020 Arthur Eddington We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
