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Terry Pratchett
(28 Apr 1948 - )
English author who has been publishing fantasy and science fiction novels since 1971, and was Britain's best-selling author of the 1990s. In his youth he was interested in astronomy and owned a telescope.
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Science Quotes by Terry Pratchett (5)
SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.
— Terry Pratchett
Wings (1990, 2007), 147.
See also: | Science And Religion (76)
At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
— Terry Pratchett
Equal Rites (1987)
Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.
— Terry Pratchett
The Last Continent (1998)
Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.
— Terry Pratchett
Speech to Alzheimer's Research Trust Conference, Bristol (13 Mar 2008).
The pen is mightier than the sword … only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp.
— Terry Pratchett
The Light Fantastic (1986)
See also: | Weapon (24)
