Terry Pratchett Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Science, Drug, Too Much

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.12, Random House

• Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

  Terry Pratchett

  I Hate You, Science, Dark

  "Criminal Minds: Conflicted". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

• In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

  Terry Pratchett

  Humorous, Science, Lords And Ladies

  "Lords and Ladies". Book by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

• It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

  Terry Pratchett

  Science, Technology, Magic

• At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Science, Important, Fundamentals

• Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

  Terry Pratchett

  Good Luck, Science, Magic

• Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

  Terry Pratchett

  Science, Logic, Wonderful

  Terry Pratchett (1998). “The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel”, Harpercollins

• Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Science, Errors

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: A Novel of Discworld”, p.9, Harper Collins

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