American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. Suzanne Fields on science
Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet. Walter Reisch on science
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. Donald Knuth on science
People who love science fiction really do love sex. Susie Bright on science
I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it. Tom Shadyac on science
I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music. Reggie Watts on science
I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew. Reggie Watts on 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 on science
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. Ulrich Beck on science
People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future. Aisha Tyler on science
It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more. Edouard Manet on science
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school. Mary Wesley on science
I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting. Donald Norman on science
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does. Daniel Keys Moran on science
I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science. Emily Deschanel on science
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. Hans Eysenck on science
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. Robert Graves on science
I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process. John Anderson on science
There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat. Gayle King on science
I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways. Richard Eyre on science