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Quotes About Expression

To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.
~ Max Born
Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.
~ Berenice Abbott
Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.
~ Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things
Science is not addressed to poets.
~ George Henry Lewes
My advice is to write about what you are interested in. If you read science fiction and fantasy, then write in that genre. If you read romance novels, then try writing one.
~ Michael Scott
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. '
~ Claude Bernard
Toil of science swells the wealth of art.
~ Friedrich Schiller
I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17.
~ Toni Jerrman
I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.
~ Ivan Reitman
Art is science made flesh.
~ Jean Cocteau
People who do not eat butterflies will wear their clothes the wrong way, and people who wear their clothes the wrong way are inviting lemmings inside." -- Muzhduk the Ugli the Third
~ Alexander Boldizar
Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I'd be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.
~ James Rozoff
A novel is a bridge from one heart to another. - Anon
~ Susan McKenzie, Tamisan
A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.
~ Amit Kalantri
I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
~ Iain M. Banks
I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
She's terse. I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.
~ Joss Whedon
When all else fails, use the pen.EMW
~ Erik Martin Willén, Pirates
If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
We will be one step down from the Creator, " she said, her olive-hued face tightening into an expression that she considered dramatic. "Imagining a world and then making it.
~ Walter Mosley
Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.
~ Thiruman Archunan
It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.
~ Karl Weierstrass