Margaret Atwood Quotes

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Science is not inherently good.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

One can not impede scientific progress.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.

Science is the only savior.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.

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

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.