Science Literature Quotes

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

My mom was a high school science teacher for decades. She just never made it feel like we had to choose between the arts and the sciences. We had bookshelves full of novels, and she also had Rachel Carson and Aldo Leopold and Carl Sagan.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'

I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller.

If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.

'First Light' has gotten a reputation as a kind of cult classic about science. I never really intended it to be read as a science book, but books, like children, have a way of choosing their own friends.

Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I don't feel the least bit constrained by it.