Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

I'm very interested in science.

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.

Of course I have other interests, but on the other hand, science is a lifestyle in the sense that it's a combination of profession and hobby.

When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something that might be called the 'graduate student syndrome'; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

Science is organized knowledge.

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

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

The term Science should not be given to anything but the aggregate of the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up - the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.

Discoveries aren't made by one person exploring by themselves. And discoveries aren't made overnight. People don't see the thousands of hours that go into it.