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).

  • “But the imposition of morality onto science, – where it does not belong – has become rampant in recent years.” -Bill Condon

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  • “One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn’t really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She’s 9 and it’s really a good film for all ages.” -Sigourney Weaver

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  • “I’ve always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in ‘Science of Sleep’ with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something…

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  • “We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don’t we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion – as everyday work.” -Dennis Kucinich

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  • “I’m writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it’s about social constructionism. So I would say I’m a social constructionist, whatever that means.” -Clifford Geertz

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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?” -Bill Nye

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  • “HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test.” -Roger Goodell

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  • “By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.” -Steven Pinker

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  • “I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.” -Eliza Dushku

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  • “Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.” -Blake Edwards

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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.” -Rudolf Arnheim

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  • “If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.” -Polykarp Kusch

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  • “Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.” -Gary Larson

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  • “Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.” -Marlon Wayans

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  • “The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy’s heels.” -A. J. Liebling

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  • “I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.” -David Eagleman

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  • “Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.” -Ernst Mach

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  • “Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.” -Rudy Rucker

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  • “Our work on light bulbs wasn’t an arbitrary mandate. We didn’t just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and…

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  • “I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.” -Helena Christensen

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  • “Science goes from question to question big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.” -George Wald

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  • “Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.” -Richard Leakey

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  • “I developed that for a long time. I also developed ‘Sugar Sweet Science’ at New Line and that didn’t happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.” -Danny DeVito

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  • “In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.” -Mary McCarthy

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  • “There’s a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.” -Andrew Bird

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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…

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  • “Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.” -Mark Haddon

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  • “Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them.” -Frank Luntz

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  • “When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.” -Shannon Lucid

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  • “Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.” -Ray Comfort

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  • “I didn’t understand how you could be an actor if you didn’t also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.” -Brit Marling

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  • “Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.” -Roland Joffe

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  • “I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.” -Cindy Margolis

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  • “And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.” -John B. S. Haldane

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  • “The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.” -Michael Pollan

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  • “Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what’s been done, what’s been superseded, what’s so much part of the furniture it’s practically part of the fabric now, what’s become no more than a joke… and so on. It’s just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail…

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  • “We’re uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It’s classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.” -Jared Diamond

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  • “Politics is the science of urgencies.” -Theodore Parker

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  • “Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.” -Luther Burbank

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  • “He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?” -Robert Barclay

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  • “I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I’m a music-nerd.” -Mayer Hawthorne

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  • “It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.” -Mary Douglas

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  • “There’s a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.” -Margot Kidder

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  • “In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.” -Steve Wozniak

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  • “Fashion is more about feel than science.” -Pharrell Williams

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  • “The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.” -Bill Toomey

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  • “To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.” -Matthew Fox

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  • “Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.” -Joshua Foer

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  • “Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.” -Julie Bishop

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  • “Science fiction encourages us to explore… all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.” -Marion Zimmer Bradley

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  • “You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.” -Imogen Cunningham

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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.” -Mike Pence

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  • “I think it’s science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These experiments have been carried out hundreds and hundreds of times in all sorts of ways that no physicist really questions the end point. I think that these experiments are very clearly telling us that consciousness is limitless and the…

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  • “Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn’t work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.” -Roger Bannister

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  • “You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.” -Murray Gell-Mann

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  • “Except in very narrow cases, where there’s breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.” -Eric Ries

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  • “Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.” -John Charles Polanyi

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  • “Science does not permit exceptions.” -Claude Bernard

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  • “Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.” -Kenneth L. Pike

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  • “Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.” -Huston Smith

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  • “Most modern science fiction went to school on ‘Dune.’ Even ‘Harry Potter’ with its ‘boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny’ shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.” -Gary Ross

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  • “I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago – at least over 30 years ago – to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.” -Richard Rogers

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  • “In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It’s so schizophrenic.” -Jonathan Carroll

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  • “Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.” -Edward Thorndike

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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.” -Patricia Cornwell

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  • “Science is always inquiring.” -Thabo Mbeki

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  • “Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.” -Paul Nurse

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  • “We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.” -Adam Savage

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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.” -Stephen Jay Gould

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  • “I think if I’m going to do a science fiction, I’m going to go down a new path that I want to do.” -Ridley Scott

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  • “Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.” -E. T. Bell

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  • “The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.” -Barry Commoner

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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.” -Josef Albers

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  • “One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.” -Paul Wolfowitz

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  • “Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws – a thing which can never be demonstrated.” -Tryon Edwards

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  • “For a member to say, ‘I’m a lame duck’ violates political science 101.” -Charles Rangel

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  • “Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre.” -Anna Torv

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  • “The science of life is changing hearts and minds.” -Gary Bauer

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  • “In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting.” -Lord Kelvin

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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.” -Louis Pasteur

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  • “I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.” -Octavia Butler

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  • “If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.” -Malcolm Turnbull

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  • “Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.” -Ralph W. Sockman

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  • “Science is not addressed to poets.” -George Henry Lewes

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  • “Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.” -Karl Popper

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  • “Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.” -Joseph Roux

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  • “I’ve started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we’ve got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It’s for NBC, it’s called ‘Afterthought,’ and it’s science fiction-ish. That’s fun.” -Melissa Rosenberg

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  • “This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn’t mean we can get there from here.” -Kevin Kelly

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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.” -Eric Schmidt

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  • “I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people’s writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people’s fiction. Just don’t.” -Laurell K. Hamilton

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  • “The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.” -Edward Teller

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  • “I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.” -Gillian Anderson

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  • “I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.” -Bianca Jagger

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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.” -Robert Ballard

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  • “Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.” -Samuel Alexander

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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.” -Allen Klein

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  • “My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward.” -Esther Williams

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  • “I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.” -Mayim Bialik

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  • “I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it’s the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that’s why I’m attracted to it.” -Wesley Snipes

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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.” -Edmund Husserl

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  • “I do enjoy reading some science fiction.” -Colin Farrell

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  • “I was always attracted to science fiction movies.” -Tina Turner

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  • “There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.” -Leon Kass

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  • “I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.” -Carter Burwell

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  • “We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.” -Arthur Eddington

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  • “Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.” -Henri Bergson

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  • “I did one sci-fi movie. I did ‘Gattaca.’ I liked ‘Gattaca’ because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.” -Ethan Hawke

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  • “We’ve heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.” -Patrick Stewart

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  • “Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.” -Denis Leary

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  • “And I have lived since – as you have – in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.” -Lester B. Pearson

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  • “From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.” -Talcott Parsons

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  • “I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.” -Marissa Mayer

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  • “If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

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  • “Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.” -Eric Gill

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  • “The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” -Thomas Berger

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  • “Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it’s still coming to computer science.” -Larry Wall

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  • “Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development – an insight came from that book.” -Robert Reed

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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.” -James Cameron

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  • “Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.” -Sydney Smith

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  • “One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.” -Henri Poincare

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  • “Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.” -Werner Heisenberg

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  • “If we reject science, we reject the common man.” -Naguib Mahfouz

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  • “To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.” -Thomas B. Macaulay

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  • “What’s different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That’s what makes it both powerful and exciting.” -Jeremy Rifkin

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  • “I’ve got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that’s nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I’m a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.” -Nathan Fillion

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  • “Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.” -Jeff Goodell

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  • “I’ve always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.” -Jaron Lanier

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  • “According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.” -Stanislav Grof

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  • “‘Rocket Science’ is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think ‘Camp’ was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don’t have an audience for immediate validation.” -Anna Kendrick

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  • “Growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.” -Lev Grossman

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  • “Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.” -Eric Alterman

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  • “I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that’s really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it’s very different. You’re out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn’t that fascinating.” -Barbara Ehrenreich

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  • “My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.” -Melinda Gates

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  • “I’ve always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.” -Barbara Kingsolver

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  • “Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.” -Friedrich Durrenmatt

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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.” -Edward Bach

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  • “Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.” -John Clayton

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  • “I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last ’60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • “Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain’s scientific competitiveness.” -Vince Cable

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  • “I’ve loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I’ve read quite extensively as an adult.” -Matt Groening

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  • “People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.” -John Polkinghorne

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  • “Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.” -Earl Wilson

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  • “Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give – such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn.” -Mikhail Bakunin

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  • “It is critical to develop a biofuel industry powered by feedstocks produced in every corner of the country, in addition to the Midwest. That is why USDA has established five regional research centers working on science necessary to ensure profitable biofuels can be produced from a diverse range of feedstocks.” -Tom Vilsack

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  • “Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.” -Henry Fielding

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  • “Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.” -Nancy Reagan

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  • “Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over – except when they are different.” -Nancy Banks Smith

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  • “To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.” -Charles Babbage

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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.” -Mary Baker Eddy

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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!” -Henrik Ibsen

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  • “I’d love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.” -J. J. Abrams

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  • “Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.” -Michael P. Anderson

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  • “Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.” -Edwin Powell Hubble

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  • “The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.” -Freeman Dyson

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  • “Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.” -Karen Armstrong

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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.” -Fareed Zakaria

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  • “Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it’s really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.” -Randy Newman

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  • “The world has changed – through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it’s ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it’s kind of hard now. The technology, the science – it’s like, are you kidding? We’re in the golden years…

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  • “Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.” -Alexis Carrel

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  • “That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.” -Jacob Bronowski

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  • “What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.” -Kyle Chandler

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  • “Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.” -Karl Kraus

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  • “What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.” -Henry A. Wallace

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  • “I’m an amateur science enthusiast. I’m not even a professional enthusiast. I don’t know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.” -Dave Eggers

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  • “I don’t think there’s a date minimum or maximum. I don’t get the whole ‘All right, you’ve got to wait three days to call after the date.’ If I got a number from a girl, I’d call that night. There’s no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel…

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  • “Nature engenders the science of painting.” -Robert Delaunay

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  • “My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.” -David Soul

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  • “My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.” -Michael Sheen

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  • “I don’t know anything about science.” -Rachel Weisz

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  • “Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.” -James Dyson

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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.” -Christa McAuliffe

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  • “Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life’s pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.” -Wilhelm Reich

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  • “Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.” -Alton Brown

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  • “In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.” -Shimon Peres

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  • “The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires – and gives rise to – deep feelings of faith.” -Jeffrey Kluger

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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.” -Jane Goodall

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  • “Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.” -Edwin Land

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  • “I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.” -Maya Lin

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  • “Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets.” -Margaret Atwood

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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.” -Dan Rather

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