Famous Quotes About science

In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

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.

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology.

For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.