Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
Thomas Kuhn
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
Hari Kunzru
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're... →
Ray Kurzweil
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which... →
Polykarp Kusch
If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an... →
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.