"I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill." - J. K. RowlingTweet
"With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be." - Dwight SchultzTweet
"Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur." - Michael J. FoxTweet
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." - Paul DiracTweet
"You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media." - James HansenTweet
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Arthur C. ClarkeTweet
"The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages." - Charles BabbageTweet
"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance." - HippocratesTweet
"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance." - Ernst MachTweet
"The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos." - William Irwin ThompsonTweet