Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken MacLeod

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

Greg Bear

Science fiction works best when it stimulates debate.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

Bill Nye

Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

Sam Harris

Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

Jules Verne

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Lance Secretan

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

Nathan Deal

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

Frederick Sanger

Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.

Brian Kobilka

Scientists are sometimes as competitive as professional athletes, maybe.

Haldan Keffer Hartline

Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

James A. Michener

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

Martin Rees

Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical.

Brooke Nevin

Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There's a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.

Teddy Sheringham

Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that.

Philip Hammond

Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.

Johann Lamont

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

William Beveridge

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

David Nicholls

Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

Leigh Brackett

Screenwriting is still a challenge for me. It's more technical than creative. You have to be a very good journeyman plumber and put the proper parts together. Then, if you can still inject a little bit of something worthwhile, you have done as much as can be expected.

Natascha McElhone

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

Frank R. Wolf

Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.

Marc Ostrofsky

Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.

Francesca da Rimini

Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.

Georg Simmel

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

T. Harv Eker

'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.

Tom Flynn

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

Michael Steele

Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.

Pat Roberts

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

Brian Bell

Seeing people ahead of time and getting acquainted with the space you're playing in is important to getting comfortable in that place.

Bam Margera

Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.

Peter B. Lewis

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

Sam Walter Foss

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

Daniel Mainwaring

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

Emil Theodor Kocher

Seldom in the history of medicine has the recognition of the most effective cure followed as swiftly on the heels of the discovery of a disease as the establishment of the complete effectiveness of iodothyrin and thyroidin followed the recognition of cachexia thyreopriva.

Longchenpa

Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth.

Stacy London

Self-esteem doesn't come simply from dressing well, but they are both something we can control. It's a missed opportunity when women say they don't have the money, figure, etc., because style is such a way to help cultivate the way women feel about themselves.

Tyra Banks

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

Chuck Grassley

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

Lloyd Bentsen

Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

Lowell Thomas

Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.

Conrad Aiken

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

Pat Brown

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

Lyall Watson

Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

Paul Valery

Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Antonio Porchia

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Setting shouldn't just consist of describing nature or a landscape, or of saying where something takes place. It is the world of specific people. It's not enough for it to feel vivid or credible; it should feel necessary.

Omar N. Bradley

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Pras Michel

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

Paul Simonon

Seven years without a break really takes a toll on you, and you don't even realize it. You're affected by other people, and after a while, sometimes they have love for you, and sometimes they don't.