Science Quotes
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“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
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“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”
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“Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.”
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“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
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“Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.”
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“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
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“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”
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“Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.”
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“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
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“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
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“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
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“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
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“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”
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“We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.”
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“Science is nothing but perception.”
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“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.”
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“Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.”
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“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
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“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
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“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.”
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“Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.”
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“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
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“Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.”
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“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”
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“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
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“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
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“What is research but a blind date with knowledge?”
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“If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
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“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.”
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“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
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“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”
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“Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.”
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“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
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“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'”
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“It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.”
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“To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.”
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“Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.”
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“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.”
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“From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.”
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“Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.”
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“Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.”
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“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.”
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“Leave the atom alone.”
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“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”
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“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”
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“The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.”
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“We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.”
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“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.”
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“The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.”
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“Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.”
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“Art is I; science is we.”
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“You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.”
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“Science is organized knowledge.”
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“The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.”
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“In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.”
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“Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.”
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“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
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“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
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“The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.”
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“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.”
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“Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.”
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“Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.”
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“The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.”
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“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny…'”
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“Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.”
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“Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.”
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“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
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“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.”
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“Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.”
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“Science grows like a weed every year.”
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“Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.”
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“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.”
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“Science is the systematic classification of experience.”
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“Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'”
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“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”
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“Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.”
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“A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
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“All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.”
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“The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.”
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“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
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“You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.”
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“It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.”
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.”
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“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
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“There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.”
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“A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.”
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“Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
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“Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.”
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“There are no shortcuts in evolution.”
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“Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.”
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“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
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“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.”
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“Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.”
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“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
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“Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.”
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“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”
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“When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.”
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“He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.”
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“We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program.”
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“We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.”
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“There is no complete theory of anything.”
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“When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.”
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“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.”
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“I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.”
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“I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.”
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“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”
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“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
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“I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.”
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“Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.”
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“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
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“Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.”
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“On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.”
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“Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.”
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“What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.”
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“Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.”
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“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.”
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“This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.”
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“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.”
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“If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.”
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“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”
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“If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.”
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“Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.”
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“Touch a scientist and you touch a child.”
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“The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.”
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“Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.”
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“That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.”
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“And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.”
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“The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.”
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“Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.”
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“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.”
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“Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.”
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“I don't want to give advice to people about their religious beliefs, but I do think that it's not smart to bet against the power of science to figure out the natural world. It used to be, a thousand years ago, that if you wanted to explain why the moon moved through the sky, you needed to invoke God.”
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“For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.”
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“Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'”
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“Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.”
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“We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.”
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“I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.”
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“It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.”
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“Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.”
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“Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.”
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“Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.”
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“Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.”
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“Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.”
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“Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.”
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“Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.”
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“Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.”
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“One can not impede scientific progress.”
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“Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field.”
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“The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.”
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“Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.”
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“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
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“Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.”
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“There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end.”
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“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
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“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”
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“Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.”
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“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”
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“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
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“Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.”
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“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”
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“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”
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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”
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“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
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“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”
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“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”
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“Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.”
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“The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.”
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“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”
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“There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.”
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“Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.”
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“Science and technology are the keys to both our longevity and our demise. Our entire existence on this planet is a double-edged sword.”
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“Chocolate milk has everything I need in a drink: the carbs, the protein, and the electrolytes. It's even backed by science, showing how you're able to recover. I can speak from experience, this is what I drink.”
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“Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.”
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“Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.”
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“When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.”
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“There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.”
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“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”
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“The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.”
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“And nowadays, the idea of AI is not really science fiction anymore - it's just science fact.”
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“Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.”
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“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.”
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“Science is magic that works.”
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“Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.”
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“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”
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“Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.”
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“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
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“The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.”
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“Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.”
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“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.”
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“Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.”
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“There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.”
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“I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.”
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“The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.”
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“In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
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“Science is but an image of the truth.”
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“Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.”
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“The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.”
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“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.”
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“I like to learn. That's an art and a science.”
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“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.”
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“Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.”
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“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
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“When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.”
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“Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.”
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“Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them.”
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
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“Statistics is the grammar of science.”
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“Why don't we have enough teachers of math and science in the public schools? One answer is well, if they knew the subject well, they'd also know enough to work for Google or Goldman Sachs or God knows where.”
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“One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
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“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.”
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“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
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“My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.”
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“Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.”
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“Art and science have their meeting point in method.”
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“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.”
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“Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.”
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“The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.”
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“Art is made to disturb, science reassures.”
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“Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.”
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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
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“Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.”
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“Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery.”
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“There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
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“Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.”
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“We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts.”
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“In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.”
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“I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.”
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“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.”
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“The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.”
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“Experience by itself is not science.”
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“Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.”
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“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.”
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“My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.”
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“The strength of the scientific establishment in any country is related to its general level of education, not only in supplying large numbers of eager minds for further training, but also in ensuring a public opinion that holds science in esteem and approves financial support.”
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“Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.”
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“When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on Earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data.”
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“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?”
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“The mission of the Ruby Bridges Foundation is to create educational opportunities like science camp that allow children from different racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds to build lasting relationships.”
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“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”
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“A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.”
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“I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.”
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“War is the science of destruction.”
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“Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.”
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“Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.”
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“Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.”
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“It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.”
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“The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.”
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“At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.”
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“The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.”
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“The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.”
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“Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.”
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“Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.”
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“You need virtual reality to understand high level science or high level math. It's very helpful to explain third and fourth dimensional things that people are constantly addressing in quantum physics. But, as soon as you're creating an avatar, and you can live and you can start to feel sensations on VR, that has gone too far.”
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“Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.”
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“Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.”
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“Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.”
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“In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.”
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“As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.”
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“The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.”
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“Life is not an exact science, it is an art.”
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“Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.”
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“Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.”
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“Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.”
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“The challenge of pollution and global warming is no longer the science, or the rate of innovation, but the rate of implementation: We have the clean solutions; now let's bundle them and install them.”
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“I hope to continue to inspire our nation's youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.”
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“Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world.”
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“Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.”
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“I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.”
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“There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.”
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“The selfsame procedure which zoology, a branch of the natural sciences, applies to the study of animals, anthropology must apply to the study of man; and by doing so, it enrolls itself as a science in the field of nature.”
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“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.”
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“The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.”
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“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.”
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“I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'”
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“Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.”
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“To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.”
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“Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.”
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“With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without.”
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“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”
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“If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.”
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“Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.”
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“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.”
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“There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.”
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“Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.”
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“Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.”
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“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.”
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“When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.”
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“The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science - that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.”
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“The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money and prestige in a world obsessed by the achievements of science.”
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“I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.”
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“I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.”
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“A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.”
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“Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.”
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“It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.”
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“Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.”
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“All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.”
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“Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.”
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“Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.”
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“If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.”
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“Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'”
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“My preparation is about precision. It is a science.”
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“In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.”
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“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.”
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“It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.”
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“If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.”
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“Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.”
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“There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.”
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“Politics is not an exact science.”
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“The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.”
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“Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.”
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“I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.”
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“There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.”
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“Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.”
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“I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.”
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“I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.”
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“I'm one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life.”
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“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
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“The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.”
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“Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
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“Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.”
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“What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.”
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“To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.”
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“Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.”
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“To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.”
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“Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.”
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“Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.”
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“Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.”
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“The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.”
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“I would not hesitate to say I was addicted to the Internet in the first two years. It can be addictive, and things not taken in moderation have negative effects. But the alarmism around 'Facebook is changing our brains' strikes me as a kind of historical trick. Because we now know from brain science that everything changes our brains.”
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“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.”
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“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.”
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“Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.”
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“Man lives for science as well as bread.”
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“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.”
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“In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.”
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“True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.”
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“To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.”
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“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
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“Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.”
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“In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.”
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“It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.”
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“The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.”
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“A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in Scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.”
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“In a modern and innovative society, where advancements are plentiful and communication is instantaneous, science and technology are a part of everyday life.”
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“I am a follower of Jesus Christ. The Bible is my primary way of knowing Him and what it means to follow Him. And I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.”
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“Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.”
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“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.”
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“I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.”
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“I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.”
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“The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.”
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“Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.”
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“You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame. It's the media and the food industry: they've fed our panic around time.”
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“The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.”
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“Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.”
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“New technologies are rapidly giving rise to unprecedented methods of warfare. Innovations that yesterday were science fiction could cause catastrophe tomorrow, including nanotechnologies, combat robots, and laser weapons.”
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“You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.”
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“I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.”
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“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”
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“If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.”
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“Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.”
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“Astrobiology is the science of life in the universe. It's an attempt to scientifically deal with the question of whether or not we're alone in the universe, looking at the past of life, the present of life, and the future of life. It's an interdisciplinary study incorporating astronomy, biology, and the Earth sciences.”
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“I am among those who think that science has great beauty.”
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“Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.”
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“We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger.”
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“Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.”
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“When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.”
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“Science is about filling in the details.”
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“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”
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“The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society… The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.”
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“Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
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“In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.”
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“It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they're clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.”
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“A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.”
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“Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.”
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“We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.”
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“The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.”
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“Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.”
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“The science of being healthy is well-known. It is not esoteric. There are no magic bullets. If you want to live a long life, we've known the answers for more than a hundred years. It's a wide-ranging diet with as much fruit and veg as you can stuff into yourself, and plenty of exercise. It doesn't even matter what kind of exercise.”
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“I'm not a very big fan of science fiction. I think that I'm a very big fan of living in the physical world.”
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“The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.”
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“There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.”
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“Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.”
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“The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.”
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“Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.”
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“The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.”
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“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”
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“I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.”
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“Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.”
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“Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.”
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“When I was young, I did varied after-school activities - I did art, drama, science, math. I'm not the sporty kind of person, but I did get a certificate on outdoor recreation.”
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“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.”
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“I was always attracted to science fiction movies.”
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“Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.”
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“My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.”
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“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.”
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“I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.”
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“In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.”
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“I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.”
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“I'm a science guy. I'm a geek. I love geology and botany and marine science. I thought maybe I'd be a professional guide, or maybe even a park ranger, working for the Department of Fish and Game.”
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“Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.”
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“The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.”
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“Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.”
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“Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.”
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“Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards.”
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“Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.”
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“There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.”
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“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.”
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“Drafting is not only an art, but there's a degree of science as well.”
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“It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.”
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“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.”
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“Science tells us more and more now that there is a strong connection between emotional well-being and health outcomes, and that you can proactively cultivate emotional well-being through relatively simple practices like sleep, social connection and meditation.”
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“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.”
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“It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.”
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“Making AI more sensitive to the full scope of human thought is no simple task. The solutions are likely to require insights derived from fields beyond computer science, which means programmers will have to learn to collaborate more often with experts in other domains.”
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“Intelligence is not a science.”
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“From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.”
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“I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.”
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“Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.”
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“Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.”
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“Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.”
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“The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.”
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“We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.”
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“We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good.”
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“When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.”
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“There is abundant science out there that connects mercury exposure in vaccines to not only autism, but to ASD, to SIDS, to ADD, ADHD, language tics - which is like Tourette Syndrome - OCD, asthma, food allergies, and diabetes.”
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“The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.”
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“Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.”
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“Hubris and science are incompatible.”
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“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.”
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“The heart of science is measurement.”
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“Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'”
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“Vote Leave argued during the referendum that a Leave victory should deliver the huge changes that the public wanted and the U.K. should make science and technology the focus of a profound process of national renewal.”
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“I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.”
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“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”
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“We are living in a science fiction world.”
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“My parents were typical Asian parents, and they do, like all parents, want their children to be successful. They really encouraged my brother and I to study math and science, and that's what we did as kids.”
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“If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.”
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“There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.”
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“Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.”
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“No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.”
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“I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.”
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“But I don't see myself as a woman in science. I see myself as a scientist.”
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“I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.”
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“It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.”
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“To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.”
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“Science began as one of the noblest expressions of man's reason. It will continue to serve humanity so long as it never forgets that human beings remain the heart of its purpose.”
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“There is artistic beauty to the way biology functions, nature functions, and science functions. I am trying to bring that kind of understanding in the design space.”
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“The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension.”
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“Economics is not a science; it is a quasi-religion: part superstition, part mystique, part sentimentality. Bankers dream like other men, the only difference being that when their dreams turn to nightmares, we all lose sleep. There can be no trusting the muttering of any prelate when it comes to money.”
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“I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.”
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“If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.'”
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“Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once.”
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“The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.”
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“Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.”
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“Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention.”
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“I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.”
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“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”
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“Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.”
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“The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.”
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“Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.”
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“We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.”
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“Surgical Anatomy is, to the student of medicine and surgery, the most essential branch of anatomical science, having reference more especially to an accurate knowledge of the more important regions, and consisting in the application of anatomy generally to the practice of surgery.”
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“We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.”
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“Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.”
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“There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.”
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“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
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“You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.”
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“I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.”
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“I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author…' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.”
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“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.”
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“Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.”
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“One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.”
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“I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.”
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“Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”
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“In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.”
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“Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts.”
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“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
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“In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.”
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“In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.”
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“I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.”
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“Science in textbooks is not fun. But if you start doing science yourself, you will find delight.”
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“I invented an algorithm for starting micro turbo-molecular vacuum pumps to be used in science instruments on a future Mars rover.”
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“Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.”
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“Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.”
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“Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.”
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“The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a candle to the dark, as Carl Sagan would say. We aren't sure what will work, when, or how much. But for all that uncertainty, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.”
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“Art, like real estate, is half science, half gut. We go to a lot of art fairs. We have two full-time art experts who help me make all the decisions about how to build the corporate and personal collection and what we put in our developments. We don't let interior designers pick art for us.”
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“Women of my generation who've stayed in science have done it by playing the men at their own game.”
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“I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.”
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“We didn't grow up in a jock household. In fact, my dad is an entrepreneur. He was a computer programmer; he was a professor of actuarial science at Wharton for 13 years, then started his own company that was software-based.”
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“Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.”
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“God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.”
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“I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.”
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“My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.”
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“But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.”
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“Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.”
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“Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.”
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“I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?”
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“We are not a trading company. We are a midstream asset company: pipe, storage and terminals. It's an unsexy, dirty business. It's not rocket science.”
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“Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.”
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“Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'”
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“What use could the humanities be in a digital age? University students focusing on the humanities may end up, at least in their parents' nightmares, as dog-walkers for those majoring in computer science. But, for me, the humanities are not only relevant but also give us a toolbox to think seriously about ourselves and the world.”
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“What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see.”
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“Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.”
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“Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.”
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“The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a matter of denouncing the illusion, the false infinite, the infinity of religion and all of the theologico-erotic-oneiric myths in which it is expressed.”
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“Shiv Nadar University has five schools with 16 departments offering 14 undergraduate, 10 master's and 13 doctoral programmes. The demand for engineering courses - computer science, engineering, electronics, communication engineering, mechanical engineering - is slightly on the higher side compared to other engineering courses.”
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“The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.”
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“We didn't care about salaries and having a nice car. We just cared about science and were really ambitious.”
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“This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.”
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“Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.”
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“GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.”
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“Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.”
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“We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.”
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“For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.”
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“Family business management is a discipline that has evolved from an art into a science. The market for this line of education has been created by the growing recognition of family-run companies that shareholders are demanding greater clarity on issues ranging from succession to the management of wealth and the distribution of profits.”
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“I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong… In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study.”
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“In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.”
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“Further, science is a collaborative effort.”
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“Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.”
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“The decline of particle physics in the U.S. is really a symptom of the erratic and sometimes anti-scientific attitudes in Washington and the incompetence of Congress in managing science.”
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“The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.”
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“I was not into sci-fi, science fiction, at all. I was into some of the old pirate films with Burt Lancaster and stuff. I liked them.”
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“In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.”
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“Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.”
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“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
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“Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you're providing delicious food with cleaner labels.”
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“Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.”
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“I did not grow up around computers, so technology was not a tool used every day in my household. I was drawn to computer science due to the creative nature of programming and the technology focus.”
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“The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.”
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“I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.”
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“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.”
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“I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.”
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“The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.”
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“I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So I was like, 'Oh, OK, baby doctor.' Until I got to college, and all the courses of science with the blood, guts and cadavers? I was like, 'Mm, no.'”
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“I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.”
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“My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.”
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“The promise of artificial intelligence and computer science generally vastly outweighs the impact it could have on some jobs in the same way that, while the invention of the airplane negatively affected the railroad industry, it opened a much wider door to human progress.”
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“Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.”
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“You have no time to do the science if you're talking to the media.”
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“There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way.”
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“Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.”
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“The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.”
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“Despite what everyone thinks about science fiction, ultimately, at its best, it's about human beings with human emotions.”
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“One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.”
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“We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.”
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“I have so many favourite science fiction films. I would say 'Alien' and 'Aliens' are two of my favourite sci-fi films. Also 'Children of Men' would be one of my favourite science fiction films. I love the original 'Solaris' and the remake. And even though it wasn't a film, the series 'Battlestar Galactica' was one of my favourite TV shows.”
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“Keynes was scarcely a 'revolutionary' in any real sense. He possessed the tactical wit to dress up ancient statist and inflationist fallacies with modern, pseudoscientific jargon, making them appear to be the latest findings of economic science.”
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“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.”
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“I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff.”
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“Based on the science, you can make somewhat clear statements: The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep without impairment is zero.”
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“Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.”
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“The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.”
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“Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.”
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“I love science fiction, but I have a hard time feeling for characters in a galaxy far away. Choosing movies is the one thing in my life where there's no compromising.”
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“Astrology is interesting but not very accurate. It's a science I don't trust very much.”
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“It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.”
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“The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.”
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“There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.”
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“Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.”
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“Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.”
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“All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.”
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“Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.”
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“'Star Wars' is more fairy tale than true science fiction.”
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“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.”
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“Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms… For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.”
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“Those of us engaged in the practice of science come to feel a certain reverence for it, engendered by its demonstrable power to dissect, clarify, and explain what previously was unexplainable, and thus to improve the human condition.”
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“It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.”
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“Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.”
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“Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.”
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“I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.”
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“While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.”
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“Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.”
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“When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.”
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“Economists agree about economics - and that's a science - and they disagree about economic policy because that's a value judgment… I've had profound disagreements on policy with the famous Milton Friedman. But, on economics, we agree.”
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“Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.”
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“Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.”
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“Science fiction I've always been a fan of.”
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“If you have a child with autism, and he or she has good intelligence, with no delay in language learning maybe there is an advantage to autism as well? Maybe it gives them a better understanding of mathematics, or science? After all, the essence of science and the essence of autism is to notice patterns that others have not noticed.”
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“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.”
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“Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.”
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“The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.”
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“It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.”
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“We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.”
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“I do hope that 'Interstellar' and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an interest in science - and a respect for the power of science in dealing with the problems that society has to deal with.”
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“The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.”
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“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”
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“Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.”
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“Computer science teaches and nurtures the type of thinking that 21st century citizens will need to address 21st century issues. We cannot know with any certainty what those challenges will be, but we can arm our students with the tools needed to address them.”
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“Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.”
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“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
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“Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.”
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“Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.”
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“Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.”
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“I was good at math and science, and it was expected that I would attend the University of Washington in Seattle and become an engineer. But by the time I was seventeen, I was ready to leave home, a decision my parents agreed to support if I could obtain a scholarship. MIT did not grant me one, but the University of Chicago did.”
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“To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, 'How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?' The honest answer is, I don't know.”
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“Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.”
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“There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.”
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“I was a kinesiology major in college, which is exercise science. Then, I was either going to get my Ph.D. or go to medical school, but I was kind of burned out after school.”
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“We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.”
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“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
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“I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.”
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“Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.”
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“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.”
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“I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.”
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“Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”
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“Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.”
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“The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.”
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“I use a system called Vector Green Reading, which applies science to the green reads.”
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“Science is not gadgetry.”
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“We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.”
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“Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, 'The Martian Chronicles.'”
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“You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.”
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“I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?”
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“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.”
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“We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.”
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“Probably the most formative experience was reading the 'Foundation' trilogy when I was about twelve years old. That wasn't the first science fiction I had ever read, but it's something that stands out in my memory as having had a big impact on me.”
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“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.”
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“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”
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“Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.”
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“For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science fiction, our gravitational wave discoveries have had an amazing public impact.”
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“A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.”
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“I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.”
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“Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.”
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“No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid Cassandra Morgan during the election campaign of 1948 when she was a Sunday school teacher, a leader of the youth organizations of St. Phillips Episcopal Church, and the head of Harlem Youth for the election of Henry Wallace.”
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“Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.”
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“I like the 'Science Channel,' the 'Discovery Channel,' I like 'Discovery Times,' which is a fabulous hybrid of the 'New York Times' and 'Discovery Channel.' Maybe I'm just an old man, but I like to watch that stuff.”
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“It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.”
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“Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.”
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“One of the things that all religions have is a narrative of doomsday. There has to be some kind of overarching fear of the future. If there wasn't, none of the religions could invoke this important thing - that science has no evidence of, by the way - called free will.”
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“Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.”
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“I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.”
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“I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.”
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“The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.”
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“Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.”
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“The proper study of mankind is the science of design.”
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“Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.”
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“Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.”
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“When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.”
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“A molecular gastronomist is really just someone who explores the world of science and food.”
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“In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.”
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“Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.”
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“Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.”
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“Science fiction encourages us to explore… all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.”
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“Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.”
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“Although science and technology open up boundless opportunities, they also present great perils because Satan employs these marvelous discoveries to his great advantage.”
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“I'm a real nerd for science. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson and 'Cosmos' and all that.”
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“As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.”
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“When parents ask why there are still so few girls in advanced science and math classes in high school, I tell them, because girls still need way more encouragement than boys to take those courses.”
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“Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.”
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“I definitely want to get into environmental science and environmental politics, learning a lot more and preserving what's left of the world. That's such a sacred circle to be in. I'd love to contribute to that.”
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“Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent.”
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“Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
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“Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.”
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“I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.”
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“I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.”
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“All the people who run agencies, all the important people in agencies have taken communication courses, marketing courses, advertising courses, and courses basically teach advertising as a science, and advertising is so far from a science it isn't even funny. Advertising is an art.”
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“Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.”
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“The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.”
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“Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.”
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“The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.”
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“Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists. Or they pretend to, because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do.”
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“I do not practice clinical medicine and hence do not treat individual patients. My career is in medical science.”
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“How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?”
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“Science doesn't work by voting. Did people vote on the theory of relativity? No! It's either right or it's wrong. Do we vote on whether genetics is a good theory or not? Of course not.”
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“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”
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“If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.”
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“Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.”
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“I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it's fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.”
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“Data science is the combination of analytics and the development of new algorithms.”
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“Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.”
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“Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.”
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“When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.”
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“All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.”
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“Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.”
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“Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.”
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“The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.”
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“Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time - the prejudice against her as a foreigner, because she was born in Poland and worked in France. And the prejudice against her as a woman.”
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“There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.”
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“By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.”
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“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
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“We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.”
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“Most science fiction is about white men who are 25 to 30, who are very smart, who face a physical problem and solve it.”
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“Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.”
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“I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.”
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“Certainly science, because of its ability to increase our capacities to do things, raises terrible risks for us all. If it were possible to undiscover nuclear fission, I would be very happy to undiscover it, because of the risks that it puts us all under.”
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“My older brother was the person who got me interested in science in general. He used to tell me what he learned in school. My first memory of mathematics is probably the time that he told me about the problem of adding numbers from 1 to 100.”
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“If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.”
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“History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.”
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“One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.”
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“When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.”
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“I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.”
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“Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.”
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“Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.”
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“Baking is both an art and a science.”
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“The art of reading physical tells isn't an exact science.”
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“No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.”
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“A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.”
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“I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.”
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“I was going to be a chemical engineer - I was a science nerd - that was the plan. I secretly applied to USC and NYU and got a scholarship to go to NYU based on a dumb animated short I made. It was a huge shock to me and my family.”
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“Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.”
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“In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh.”
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“Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.”
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“The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.”
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“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
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“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”
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“Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.”
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“Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.”
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“When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.”
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“I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.”
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“The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.”
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“'Dasavatharam' is science fiction, a multi-crore budgeted film worth Rs 50 to 60 crore and ahead of its time.”
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“I've had the chance to work with Christopher Plummer, one of the great stage and film actors, a couple of times, including on 'Prototype,' the first TV movie I ever did. It was science fiction in the Ray Bradbury sense, written by the famous team who created Columbo, Levinson, and Link.”
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“Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.”
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“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.”
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“Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.”
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“Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.”
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“Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.”
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“I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.”
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“Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.”
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“Meteorologists don't use a script, and most create their own graphics and certainly put together their own forecasts. Most of us went to school to become scientists - at least I did - and studied thermodynamics, physics, and tons of calculus to take this young science to the next level. Our accuracy is amazing and will only continue to improve.”
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“As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.”
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“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”
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“Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.”
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“The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.”
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“Rather than relying on farmers, ranchers, outdoorsmen, lumberjacks, surveyors, oil workers, miners, or community leaders who have decades of land use experience, government policymakers turn to 25-year-olds with master's degrees in ecology and political science to run the country's public lands policy.”
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“The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.”
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“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
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“In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like.”
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“The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.”
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“We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.”
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“We can make science personal, like a love story or your best friend.”
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“The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.”
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“I co-founded Affectiva with Professor Rosalind W. Picard when we spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2009. I acted as Chief Technology and Science Officer for several years until becoming CEO mid-2016, one of a handful of female CEOs in the AI space.”
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“It's not rocket science. It's social science.”
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“Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.”
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“The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.”
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“In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.”
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“Science gave me a cosmic religious feeling, and I would get the same feeling when I was dragged to the Met and the Museum of Modern Art.”
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“I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can.”
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“Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.”
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“I felt that chess… is a science in the form of a game… I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.”
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“I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.”
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“I really like being pregnant. Not that there aren't things I don't love, but when I think about what my body is doing - creating a child - it just blows my mind. I'm in awe of the process and science.”
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“The science of life is changing hearts and minds.”
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“I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.”
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“I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.”
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“I was a political science major. I was always interested in social impact.”
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“I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.”
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“I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects, but I think I was a pretty good student.”
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“Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.”
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“I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.”
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“Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.”
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“People believe that art and science are two distinct realms. It is far from the truth because, if you look at science from a microscope or from a different lens, you can see the beauty in science. It is very artistic.”
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“So many young black women love science, technology, engineering, and maths. But that's not the widely held image of the kind of person who likes those things.”
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“The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.”
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“To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.”
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“I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!”
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“While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.”
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“Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.”
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“Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.”
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“The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.”
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“That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.”
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“I've never thought of acting as rocket science - you put on the costume, get your hair cut, and that's it, really.”
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“I have a Ph.D. in philosophy and sports science. At 14, I went through this really tough Soviet training system. A lot of my roommates got psychologically broken or physically injured. Either you came through, or you were out. I made my Ph.D. work in the field of young athletes aged 14-19 because at this age any human is changing.”
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“Nothing you'll read as breaking news will ever hold a candle to the sheer beauty of settled science. Textbook science has carefully phrased explanations for new students, math derived step by step, plenty of experiments as illustration, and test problems.”
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“Yoga is an art and science of living.”
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“Chemical synthesis is uniquely positioned at the heart of chemistry, the central science, and its impact on our lives and society is all pervasive.”
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“But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.”
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“As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.”
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“Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science.”
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“History is the science of things which are not repeated.”
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“Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.”
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“Genomic science, as the newest frontier in scholarly research, is throwing open the door to a revolutionary way of approaching our health, the health and welfare of animals, and the sustainability of our environment.”
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“I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.”
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“If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.”
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“Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.”
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“Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.”
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“When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three … Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'”
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“We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.”
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“We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.”
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“In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.”
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“But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.”
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“My father was not only a planetary scientist and a great popularizer of science, but he thought very deeply about the world. He was a scholar, he studied history. He taught a class in critical thinking, and he was very, very aware of the directions we might go.”
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“In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run, they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end, the community will come around.”
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“Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.”
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“Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.”
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“I think it is important to have a balance of science and arts to be able to be accessible in either fields.”
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“If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.”
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“All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.”
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“The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.”
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“That's one of those things about being a computer science major: Valentine's Day is just another day.”
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“The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while the creator was not thinking about what he was working on, not consciously anyway - the daydreaming mode solved the problem for him, and the answer appeared suddenly as a stroke of insight.”
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“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”
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“Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.”
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“We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.”
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“Young people, those who think they're experts in science, there's no doubt. They just believe it, and so there has to be an explanation - and whatever man is doing has caused the jet stream to slow down, and that is permitting the polar vortex.”
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“I found that people like rules, and I love to tell people what to do. It's not rocket science when it comes to weight loss. It's about eating a little less and moving a little bit more.”
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“Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.”
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“More and more jobs are applying cutting-edge technologies and now demand deeper knowledge of math and science in positions that most people don't think of as STEM-related, including machinists, electricians, auto techs, medical technicians, plumbers and pipefitters.”
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“The evasion of justice within academia is all the more infuriating because the course of sexual harassment is so predictable. Since I started writing about women and science, my female colleagues have been moved to share their stories with me; my inbox is an inadvertent clearinghouse for unsolicited love notes.”
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“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.'”
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“Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.”
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“Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.”
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“One futuristic novel that had a huge impact on me was Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein,' which is kind of science fiction plus Gothic.”
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“Science tells us we need to keep the majority of fossil fuels in the ground, and that we must urgently invest in renewable energy, and other alternative industries. Doing so would create millions of jobs, ensure a fair transition for fossil fuel workers into new industries, and avert the most catastrophic climate breakdown.”
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“The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales.”
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“I do have a huge fascination for science, and I love to hear what my dad has to say. He used to take me into minor surgeries when I was a kid and let me watch, so I definitely have a passion for it, but it's not as big a passion as I have for acting and creating characters.”
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“The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.”
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“I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.”
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“Chemistry is the science of atoms. Elaborating on Democritus' idea, chemists learn how atoms stick or don't stick together, thus forming molecules.”
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“Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.”
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“It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.”
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“I do enjoy reading some science fiction.”
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“Do you not see what damage has been done to science through this: i.e. pedants wishing to be philosophers; to treat of natural things, and mix themselves with and decide about things Divine?”
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“Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question. This is precisely why the scientific method is the most powerful framework for understanding the world.”
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“While 15-year-olds in China blitz their peers in the West in math, reading and science, we are warping the minds of our children by indoctrinating them in an ideology that is Marxist in nature and teaches them that America is an oppressive regime of 'whiteness' and anyone born with white skin needs to be punished, humiliated and marginalized.”
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“Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.”
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“Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.”
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“Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.”
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“Fashion is more about feel than science.”
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“How do we encourage a lot more girls to pursue science, technology, and engineering careers? By casting droves of women in STEM jobs today in movies and on TV.”
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“The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.”
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“The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.”
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“I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.”
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“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
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“Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950.”
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“Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.”
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“Science is going to be revolutionized by AI assistants.”
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“Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.”
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“My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.”
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“We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.”
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“For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.”
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“The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.”
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“I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.”
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“Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.”
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“I'm comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk science and real science.”
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“I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.”
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“Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.”
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“I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.”
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“I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.”
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“In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.”
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“When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'”
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“It was hard for me to believe. I would look down and say, 'This is the moon, this is the moon,' and I would look up and say, 'That's the Earth, that's the Earth,' in my head. So, it was science fiction to us even as we were doing it.”
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“I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it.”
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“Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.”
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“I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom.”
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“People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.”
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“While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.”
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“Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.”
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“I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.”
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“The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.”
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“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.”
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“Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.”
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“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.”
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“I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.”
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“The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material.”
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“I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.”
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“Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.”
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“Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.”
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“Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.”
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“I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.”
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“Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.”
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“Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.”
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“If you go to planetary science meetings and hear technical talks on Pluto, you will hear experts calling it a planet every day.”
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“To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.”
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“And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.”
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“My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.”
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“My grandmothers on both sides chose not to go to doctors and passed away. We were entrenched in the Christian Science faith.”
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“We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.”
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“If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.”
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“Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.”
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“The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.”
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“Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic about the methods we use. When we need to do history, we should do history. When we need to study political science, we should study political science.”
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“There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.”
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“With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.”
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“I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.”
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“I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.”
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“For one thing, you have the opportunity in science fiction shows to do things with stories - address issues and ideas - that you can't in any other genre.”
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“Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?”
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“The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.”
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“The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.”
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“I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.”
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“In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.”
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“I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense of science, physics, engineering, space travel… all those great things. Maths is a backbone for it.”
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“I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.”
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“I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.”
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“Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.”
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“It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.”
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“I've only actively promoted what we always hope is good science.”
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“It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.”
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“We especially need imagination in science.”
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“Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.”
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“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”
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“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
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“The man of science is a poor philosopher.”
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“Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.”
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“The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.”
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“Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.”
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“English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.”
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“If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?”
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“Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.”
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“Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.”
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“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.”
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“Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.”
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“In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.”
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“Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.”
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“GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.”
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“Science rules!”
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“Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.”
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“It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.”
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“I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.”
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“All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.”
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“What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.”
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“The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.”
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“Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.”
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“I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.”
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“I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.”
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“The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.”
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“I was a very keen reader of science fiction.”
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“Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.”
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“Darwin gives courage to the rest of science that we shall end up understanding literally everything, springing from almost nothing - a thought extremely hard to comprehend and believe.”
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“Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.”
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“Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.”
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“In my own life, my science and my religion are separate.”
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“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”
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“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.”
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“Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.”
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“When I got engaged to be married, it was assumed that I would quit science and be a housewife. It was considered shameful if a married woman had to work - it implied that her husband couldn't earn enough to keep her.”
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“Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.”
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“Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.”
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“We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.”
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“I had decided after 'Hollow Man' to stay away from science fiction. I felt I had done so much science fiction. Four of the six movies I made in Hollywood are science-fiction oriented, and even 'Basic Instinct' is kind of science fiction.”
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“Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into the atmosphere. And it appears to be speeding up. If science has made any mistakes, science has been underestimating it.”
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“I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.”
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“In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.”
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“The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'”
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“Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.”
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“Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.”
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“When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.”
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“Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.”
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“The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.”
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“Design, art, and science are all a melange.”
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“Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.”
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“I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.”
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“In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.”
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“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.”
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“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.”
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“I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.”
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“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
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“The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.”
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“The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.”
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“Bioethics is a very, very important field. As we get more and more in the arena of understanding science and getting better opportunities, the fact that you can do things with biological sciences that have an impact on a human being means you must have ethical standards.”
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“People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.”
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“One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”
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“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
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“When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then?”
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“The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.”
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“What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!”
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“But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.”
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“So I decided on science when I was in college.”
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“What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.”
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“Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.”
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“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”
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“I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.”
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“The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.”
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“Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.”
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“As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.”
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“Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.”
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“Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.”
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“The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These are parts of the intellectual map where we're still groping for the truth - where, in the fashion of ancient cartographers, we must still inscribe 'here be dragons.'”
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“Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help to design some of the experiments that come from other primary researchers. So it becomes very important that you have a science background.”
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“In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.”
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“Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.”
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“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
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“I want very much to communicate science to as wide an audience as possible, but not at a cost of dumbing down, and not at a cost in getting things right.”
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“In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.”
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“I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.”
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“Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.”
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“No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang.”
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“When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.”
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“If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.”
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“The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.”
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“There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.”
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“Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science.”
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“Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.”
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“I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.”
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“I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science, but they never really got the opportunity?”
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“Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.”
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“Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.”
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“Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.”
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“Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.”
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“The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.”
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“For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.”
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“All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.”
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“How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.”
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“One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.”