Famous Quotes About science

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.

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.

When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.