#scienc

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story. ↗

— Hugo Gernsback

#exposition #fiction #first #must #place

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#science #superstition #age

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. ↗

— John Glenn

#education #help #important #important thing #inspire

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#employs #hypotheses #inquiry #never #points

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. ↗

— James Van Allen

#fan #had #i #magazines #mechanics

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#art #beyond #define #depths #difficult

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #conscience #cut #failing #fighting

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#heads #how #live #mark #mathematical

La science est une nouvelle religion et la désinfection est son eau bénite. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#religion #science #religion

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual? ↗

— Robert Barclay

#any #art #earthly #first #how