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• A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

  Frederik Pohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science, Clearly, Fiction

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Science, Practiced

• It’s clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

  Frederik Pohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science, Population

• My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature – science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

  Frederik Pohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Method, Science

• Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren’t all that great).

  Frederik Pohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Believe, Science

• The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

  Frederik Pohl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science, Fiction

• When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

  Frederick Sanger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Literature, Science

• Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.

  Pauley Perrette

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Comfartable, Language, Science

• Science, which is not so attached to ‘truth’ as it once was, ut more to immediate ‘effectiveness’, is now drifting towards a decline, it’s civic fall from grace.

  Paul Virilio

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Science, Effectiveness

• History is the science of things which are not repeated.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in History

  Tags in Science

• Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science, Successful, Literature

• Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

  Blake Edwards

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science, Facts

• I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.

  Paul Nurse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, American, Science, Scientific, Experiment

• Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

  Paul Nurse

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Students, Science

• I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

  Paul Nurse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Science

• We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.

  Paul Nitze

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Science
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  The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in True, Science

• The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

  Paul Klee

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Science

• Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Purpose, Science, Excursion

•  A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.

   

  Paul Davies

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Universe, Disappear, Science