The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe. Terry Pratchett
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. Pope Paul VI
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. Alan Turing
I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line. Daniel Radcliffe
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. Henry Adams
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Arthur C. Clarke
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts. Baruch Spinoza
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. Leslie Fiedler
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. Edward Abbey
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. Jacob Bronowski
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century. Freeman Dyson
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. David Hume
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. Max Planck
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. Ludwig Wittgenstein
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it. Marie Curie