“Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.”
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“Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.”
“Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.”
“I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.”
“Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”
“Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.”
“Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.”
“The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.”
“If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.”
“I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.”
“I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.”
“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”
“Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.”
“Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.”
“Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.”
“True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.”
“We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.”
“I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.”
“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”
“New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.”
“Art is I; science is we.”
“The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.”
“Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.”
“We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.”