Science Quotes

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationships of women with the creations of science.

It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.

Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.

The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don’t have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.