Science and war quotes:

Send

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. -- Fredrik Bajer
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. -- Paul Wolfowitz
V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human. -- Jonathan Maberry
My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots. -- Cynthia Breazeal
I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. -- Craig Venter
As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly. -- J. August Richards
Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation. -- James Surowiecki
My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at the War College. -- Suzanne Collins
The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war. -- Simon Newcomb
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way. -- Robert Sheckley
I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but that's a little way off yet. -- Jeremy Bulloch
Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF? -- Paul Di Filippo
Star Wars' is a grand soap opera, and 'Star Trek' is about technology, they tried to explain the reality of it, as far-fetched as it might be. And that's why I've always liked the science behind the fiction. -- Robert Kazinsky
When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.' -- George Lucas
If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere. -- Kirk Hammett
We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.' -- Matt Groening
My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine. -- John Henry Carver
I appreciate both... for me, I think 'Star Wars' is more science fantasy and is based on a lot of great legendary heroes and morality plays and stuff. And 'Star Trek' is just pure fun. Pure science fun. And I've always appreciated both. -- Ming-Na Wen
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction. -- Lester B. Pearson
War is science of destruction. -- John Stevens Cabot Abbott
War is the science of destruction. -- John Abbott
Science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war. -- Louis Pasteur
War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism. -- Stan Goff
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. -- Vladimir Lenin
Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war. -- Edward Gibbon
The indisputable fact is that nutritional science is the most powerful weapon available to win the war on cancer. -- Joel Fuhrman
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny. -- John F. Kennedy
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. -- Rebecca West
War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice. -- Alexander Hamilton
I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. -- Freeman Dyson
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction. -- David Mitchell
If science took my IQ and spread it evenly among the world's population, like mental mayonnaise, we'd have more art, less war, and higher cholesterol. -- Jarod Kintz
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction. -- John Boyd Orr
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war. -- Pal Benko
--
So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science. -- John B. S. Haldane
Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap. -- CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war. -- John Haynes Holmes

Send