Military Science Quotes

#1. The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy. In military science this is called Psy-Ops, for your info.

David Foster Wallace

#2. In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#3. Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but he also develops the characters with satisfying depth. I thoroughly enjoyed this rip-roaring read, and I can hardly wait for the next book.

Catherine Asaro

#4. We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

Jerry Pournelle

#5. My family didn't have time for me, so I decided to join the Suvorov military academy, which is in St. Petersburg. I spent two years there and studied general military science. At that point, once I graduated, I joined the Chernigov higher education pilot academy.

Roman Romanenko

#6. If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

Brandon Sanderson

#7. Unbreakable is a little bit Starship Troopers and a little bit Esmay Suiza, with a dash of Firefly for flavor. W. C. Bauers gives us everything we want in our military science fiction, but never allows the hardware and action to overshadow Paen and everyone else caught in the crossfire.

Dayton Ward

#8. In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#9. Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Rebecca West

#10. The path not taken, was not taken. No point wondering.

Philip Palmer

#11. Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Ulrich Beck

#12. Veil wouldn't make his military invincible, but it would render every other military indefensible. Veil was it. Game over, fuckholes.

Aaron Overfield

#13. Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.

Henry V. O'Neil

#14. Caleb shoved back from the table and stood to retreat to the kitchen. "No. Find another plan."

"There is no other plan. This isn't even a plan, merely a nugget of an idea for the start of a plan that's certain to fail and end in your deaths.

G.S. Jennsen

#15. Food's the killer. The clock starts as soon as the troops are on the ground. You wouldn't believe how fast they consume what they're carrying, and then ... if I don't get them more, if I don't find them more ... they die.

Henry V. O'Neil

#16. Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life.

Mary Roach

#17. Whole fields have disappeared from view: the clergy, the military, electoral politics, teaching, even academia itself, for the most part, including basic science.

William Deresiewicz

#18. God, I swear I've never seen a more
nervous bunch of people. Like a bunch of rats in a science lab.

Feather Stone

#19. This was not, of course, the first time that significant monies were spent on military programs. Kennedy knew, if only implicitly, that while bravery may win battles, science and technology provide security. Science and technology win wars.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#20. This is a Spartacan fighting knife. Heard of the Spartacan Scouts? Rough boys. This knife belonged to one of them. He died saving my life.

Henry V. O'Neil

#21. No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days.

Henry V. O'Neil

#22. He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he'd peed himself, it didn't matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.

Henry V. O'Neil

#23. The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

Chester W. Nimitz

#24. What you mons making all the racket about? You wake me again and I'll put the voodoo hex on you. All you only call me Tuberculosis behind my back now. You want the real thing?" Sergeant "T. B" Tinkerbelle Bettina Jones.

Ellen Dawn Benefield

#25. This is what I hate most about guys like you. You didn't even try.

Henry V. O'Neil

#26. Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

Steve Sheinkin

#27. The technical genius which could find answers ... was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

Henry H. Arnold

#28. When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.

Livy

#29. An illusion is when everyone is in on the joke, a delusion is when you are the joke.

Austin Aragon

#30. That's it. Keep that edge. Fight like there's no tomorrow.

Henry V. O'Neil

#31. How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.

Henry V. O'Neil

#32. US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.

Mary Roach

#33. Remember what they did to Broadleaf, and remember what they did to us. Now it's time for us to kill 'em back.

Henry V. O'Neil

#34. There's not a hell of a lot of difference between bravery and stupidity." - Commander Boaz Aurigae

Charles Nall

#35. Never diagnosed the enemy before.

Henry V. O'Neil

#36. Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.

Ann Druyan

#37. What happens," called out Max, "if you win?"
"We die anyway, but I become legend" I explained

Philip Palmer

#38. [Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

Edward Gibbon

#39. 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

#40. I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#41. I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and stock markets, military systems and massive wealth - forces and dynamics I don't understand or can hardly imagine.

Michael Leunig

#42. You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.

Isaac Asimov

#43. Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

Cordell Hull

#44. I am in short, a witch of the quantumverse.

Philip Palmer

#45. [A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

Edward Gibbon