science

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘science’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

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  • “The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.” -John Desmond Bernal

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  • “We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.” -Nick Lampson

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  • “Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.” -Brian Aldiss

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  • “I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn’t sure of it.” -Diane Cilento

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  • “Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.” -Joel Edgerton

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  • “Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist’s search for truth.” -Irving Langmuir

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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.” -Shelby Foote

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  • “If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.” -Arthur Holly Compton

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  • “They’ve also asked me now to start on another series that we’re gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it’s not science fiction, it’s more in the Mystery and Crime division and that’s another area I’m very interested in.” -Bruce Boxleitner

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  • “Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.” -Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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  • “If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: ‘Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?’ From what I’ve seen, it’s not likely.” -Tim Ferriss

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  • “I do love science fiction, but it’s not really a genre unto itself it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I’ve done, I’ve ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that’s made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you…

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  • “A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.” -Emily Greene Balch

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  • “It may be far in the future, but there’s some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.” -Elizabeth Moon

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  • “I was horrible at science and math. I couldn’t pass a test to save my life! I’m surprised that it didn’t take me until I was 20 to graduate. That’s why my role is so cool – Grissom is the complete opposite of me.” -William Petersen

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  • “I started in this racket in the early ’70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.” -Jerry Pournelle

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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.” -James C. Maxwell

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  • “In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.” -Aravind Adiga

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  • “We’ve established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.” -Christine Gregoire

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  • “I was really bright as a kid and tested well, and it was clear that I was going to get scholarships to any schools I wanted. My dad always said I could be an engineer at that time it was the elite of society: steady job, working in science, which was then the answer to…

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  • “But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.” -Michael Shermer

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  • “As the Nation’s primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.” -Judy Biggert

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  • “I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn’t advanced as far as science.” -Michelangelo Antonioni

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  • “Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.” -John Carmack

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  • “I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.” -Anne Stevenson

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  • “The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.” -Phillip E. Johnson

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  • “Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.” -Jose Padilha

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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.” -William Masters

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  • “I’d always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.” -Gil Gerard

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  • “Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.” -Ronald Graham

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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.” -Bobby Fischer

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  • “I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I’m all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It’s what you want it to be.…

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  • “It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.” -Alva Myrdal

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  • “There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it – mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction – I don’t know if I want to do that anymore.” -Seth Grahame-Smith

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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.” -Whitfield Diffie

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  • “That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.” -Charles E. Wilson

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  • “1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.” -Leon Askin

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  • “I’ve always been a fan of science fiction films, and I’ve never been able to put my particular spin on it.” -Ivan Reitman

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  • “Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.” -David Hilbert

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  • “I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader’s Digest… I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.” -Gary Coleman

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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.” -H. P. Blavatsky

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  • “I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.” -Heinz R. Pagels

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  • “When I did ‘Battlestar Galactica’ it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn’t really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.” -Michelle Forbes

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  • “Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.” -Seth Lloyd

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  • “In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.” -Tim Bishop

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  • “Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.” -Sidney Altman

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  • “When I was a kid, I loved ‘The Curse of Frankenstein,’ ‘The Creeping Unknown,’ ‘X: The Unknown.’ I love ‘Forbidden Planet,’ ‘The Thing from Another World.’ They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.” -John Carpenter

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  • “Fracking is doable if there’s full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there’s collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.” -Bill Richardson

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  • “I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.” -Fred Saberhagen

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  • “I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.” -Jean M. Auel

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  • “Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.” -Francis Parker Yockey

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  • “I quite enjoy science fiction.” -Lexa Doig

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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.” -Matthew McConaughey

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  • “The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.” -Geezer Butler

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  • “But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.” -Ivan Pavlov

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  • “Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America’s students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.” -Ernest Istook

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  • “In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.” -Johan Huizinga

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  • “I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven’s wonderful.” -Jeri Ryan

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  • “Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.” -Bill Frist

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  • “We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.” -Fredrik Bajer

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  • “Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.” -John Deacon

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  • “Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.” -Cathy McMorris

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  • “But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.” -Jack Vance

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  • “We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.” -Mark Kennedy

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  • “With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.” -Dwight Schultz

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  • “The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.” -Tom Baker

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  • “Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.” -Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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  • “I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.” -Yancy Butler

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  • “In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.” -Dean Inge

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  • “But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I’ll bet you’ll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.” -David Brin

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  • “The proper study of mankind is the science of design.” -Herbert Simon

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

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  • “Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.” -Serge Lang

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  • “Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.” -Richard Le Gallienne

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  • “I’m mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.” -Sarah Zettel

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  • “The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.” -Michael Behe

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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.” -John Coleman

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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.” -Mark Goddard

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  • “The thing about science is that it’s an accurate picture of the world.” -Jonathan Miller

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  • “We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science.” -James D. Watson

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  • “That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.” -Tony Snow

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  • “Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.” -Marcus V. Pollio

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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.” -Edouard Manet

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  • “I was sent to a finishing school, which didn’t last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I ‘came out’ before going to a domestic science school.” -Mary Wesley

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  • “I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.” -Donald Norman

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  • “It’s very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.” -Daniel Keys Moran

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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.” -Emily Deschanel

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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.” -Hans Eysenck

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  • “Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.” -Robert Graves

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  • “I’m not being evasive but I am saying I’m not a scientist and I’m not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process.” -John Anderson

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  • “There’s a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat.” -Gayle King

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  • “I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won’t destroy ourselves in other ways.” -Richard Eyre

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  • “Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.” -Donald Knuth

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  • “American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We’re even trailing France.” -Suzanne Fields

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  • “Don’t you see what’s at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.” -Walter Reisch

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  • “People who love science fiction really do love sex.” -Susie Bright

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  • “I’m from the Madeleine L’Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there’s a creator who’s behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.” -Tom Shadyac

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  • “I don’t think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you’re achieving. I’m all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.” -Reggie Watts

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  • “Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.” -Franz Grillparzer

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  • “Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.” -Ulrich Beck

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  • “People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.” -Aisha Tyler

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  • “Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.” -Alan Perlis

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  • “Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.” -Laurel Clark

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  • “However, I wasn’t very good at the sciences, or didn’t have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn’t set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn’t get a good enough result to go to University.” -Jeremy Irons

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  • “I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.” -Dinesh D’Souza

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  • “One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.” -Simon Newcomb

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  • “It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren’t going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.” -Andrew Greeley

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  • “Art is made to disturb, science reassures.” -Georges Braque

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  • “When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn’t have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.” -Terri Windling

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  • “I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.” -James Spader

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  • “Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.” -Walter Jon Williams

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  • “In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.” -Mike Johanns

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  • “When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn’t what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.” -Warwick Davis

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  • “Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.” -Joan D. Vinge

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  • “Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.” -Billy Campbell

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  • “This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we’re talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.” -Jerry Moran

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  • “Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.” -Jeffery Deaver

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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.” -Scott Ritter

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  • “The world is my country, science is my religion.” -Christiaan Huygens

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  • “I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.” -Richard Powers

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  • “I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.” -William Hurt

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  • “Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best.” -Robert H. Austin

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  • “Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.” -Joseph Rotblat

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  • “Truth is I don’t think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.” -Peter Mullan

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  • “When I’m not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I’ve been writing quite constantly lately so I’ve been reading a lot of nonfiction – philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.” -Irvine Welsh

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  • “Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.” -Walter Lang

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  • “The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.” -Jim Sensenbrenner

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  • “In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.” -Amy Lowell

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  • “And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.” -Martin Feldstein

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  • “I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.” -Major Owens

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  • “Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.” -Charles Krauthammer

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  • “I love science fiction.” -Pam Grier

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  • “What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.” -James Hansen

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  • “As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush’s blatant disregard for science.” -Louise Slaughter

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  • “As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.” -John Boyd Orr

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  • “Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn’t fit the findings of science.” -Clyde Tombaugh

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  • “I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.” -Sara Paretsky

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  • “The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.” -Walter Gilbert

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  • “The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.” -William Irwin Thompson

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  • “So my degree was in political science, which I think was – the closest I could come to marketing is politics.” -Steve Case

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  • “In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.” -Kenny Marchant

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  • “I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.” -Rick Baker

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  • “Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.” -Kary Mullis

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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.” -Ellen Ochoa

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  • “As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I’d be writing novels.” -Daniel H. Wilson

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  • “Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness but a belief is always sensitive.” -James Anthony Froude

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  • “The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.” -George Meredith

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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.” -Robert Trout

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  • “As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.” -Norman Spinrad

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  • “I don’t dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.” -Lukas Foss

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  • “Today’s recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.” -Tony Visconti

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  • “The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.” -Edward Sapir

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  • “Intelligence is not a science.” -Frank Carlucci

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  • “I’m chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.” -Joshua Lederberg

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  • “The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.” -Dixie Lee Ray

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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.” -Bruno Mars

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  • “The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I’ve had to learn a little bit about it. It’s not rocket science: You get ratings, that’s good.” -Al Franken

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  • “It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.” -Nicole Scherzinger

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  • “If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.” -Marvin Minsky

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  • “Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.” -Yuri Milner

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  • “Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.” -Leland Stanford

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  • “When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who’d get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.” -Scott Thompson

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  • “Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.” -Arthur Young

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  • “And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you’re healthier than if you don’t. In fact, there’s no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier.” -Tom Coburn

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  • “Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It’s something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you’re going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.” -Kevin J. Anderson

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  • “The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton’s formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.” -Paul Davies

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  • “A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.” -Robin G. Collingwood

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  • “We especially need imagination in science.” -Maria Mitchell

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  • “One of the problems we’ve had is that the ICT curriculum in the past has been written for a subject that is changing all the time. I think that what we should have is computer science in the future – and how it fits in to the curriculum is something we need to be talking…

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  • “Winning is the science of being totally prepared.” -George Allen, Sr.

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  • “I’ve always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.” -Dan Aykroyd

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  • “And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.” -Justin Cronin

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  • “I’m really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.” -John Templeton

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  • “Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don’t need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.” -Susan Wojcicki

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  • “In the sick room, ten cents’ worth of human understanding equals ten dollars’ worth of medical science.” -Martin H. Fischer

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  • “I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.” -Theodore Sturgeon

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  • “In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.” -Denise Mina

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  • “My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.” -Arthur Keith

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  • “I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.” -Neil LaBute

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