#science

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#analogous #consciously #does #fact #fictional

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#care #ellison #enough #fiction #hard

When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers. ↗

— George Porter

#coffee #given #happiness #honour #indeed

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#court #god #judge #like #without

Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#certainly #constitute #deeper #discontinuity #knowledge

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#before #breakfast #day #discard #every

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. ↗

— John Carmack

#difficulty #out #proportion #rocket #rocket science

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been. ↗

— Steve Martin

#anything #been #blame #danger #everything

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#could #global #itself #neither #nor

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#certainty #creationists #proof #science #without