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Terry Pratchett Quotes about Science

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

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

Terry Pratchett
Science, Technology, Magic

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.

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.

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

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

Terry Pratchett
Science, Important, Fundamentals

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

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

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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