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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).
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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.” -Emily Post
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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.” -Alan Shepard
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“Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.” -Cyril Connolly
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“Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.” -Gregory Bateson
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“Economics has never been a science – and it is even less now than a few years ago.” -Paul Samuelson
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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.” -Jean Rostand
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“We’re as clever as we think we are, but we’ll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We’re at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time –…
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“I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.” -Nicolas Cage
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“Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life – on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state – must be cast in the language of human rights.” -Jonathan Sacks
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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.” -William Gibson
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“The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.” -Edward de Bono
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“If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family’s life but change your ghetto’s life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.” -will.i.am
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“I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we’re in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.” -David Eddings
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“Some of the FDA’s own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA’s actions.” -Joseph Crowley
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“The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.” -Lewis Mumford
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“The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.” -Carl Friedrich Gauss
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“The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.” -Al Gore
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“Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.” -Bruno Bettelheim
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“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing.” -Edward Tufte
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“It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.” -Norman Cousins
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“To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.” -Vannevar Bush
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“Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.” -Eliot Spitzer
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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…
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“The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.” -Paul Klee
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“Politics is not an exact science.” -Otto von Bismarck
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“Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.” -Jeff Bezos
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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.” -J. G. Ballard
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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.” -Alan Dershowitz
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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.” -Friedrich August von Hayek
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“What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: ‘Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?’ If you don’t have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done…
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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.” -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.” -Susan Sontag
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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.” -Cleveland Abbe
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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.” -Sally Ride
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“Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.” -James Buchan
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“We’ve made science experiments of ourselves and our children.” -Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.” -Rebecca West
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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.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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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.” -John Glenn
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“We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
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“I don’t think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.” -Cindy Crawford
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“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” -Ernest Rutherford
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“New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.” -Herbert Hoover
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“The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.” -Sandra Day O’Connor
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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.” -Benjamin Carson
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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.” -Alfred North Whitehead
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“Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.” -Andre Breton
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“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.” -Ashley Montagu
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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.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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“I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.” -Joe Biden
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“The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what’s it all about.” -David Attenborough
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“True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.” -Miguel de Unamuno
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“Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.” -Henry W. Kendall
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“Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.” -Samuel Richardson
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“In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.” -Herbert Spencer
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“The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.” -Irving Babbitt
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“I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.” -Neil Gaiman
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“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.” -Stephen Leacock
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“History is the science of things which are not repeated.” -Paul Valery
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“Science without conscience is the death of the soul.” -Francois Rabelais
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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…
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“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” -Edsger Dijkstra
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“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.” -Arthur Erickson
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“Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.” -Muhammad Iqbal
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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.” -Julia Roberts
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“I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.” -William Bernbach
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“Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can’t talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.” -Philip K. Dick
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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.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.” -William Jennings Bryan
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“Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.” -Doris Lessing
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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.” -Noam Chomsky
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“I did, although I didn’t read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.” -Liam Neeson
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“Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.” -Bertolt Brecht
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“President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that’s what President Obama believes.” -Elizabeth Warren
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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.” -Swami Sivananda
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“I think that’s what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There’s no melodrama there’s no device, It’s just about a human being.” -Jack Nicholson
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“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.” -John Calvin
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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.” -Max Planck
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“There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.” -Hippocrates
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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.” -Marie Curie
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“Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.” -David Hume
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“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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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.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.” -Wanda Sykes
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“Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.” -Joseph Wood Krutch
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“Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.” -Evan Esar
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“God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don’t know what they’re talking about because they weren’t there. They can’t speculate about the origins of life because they weren’t…
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“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.” -Arthur C. Clarke
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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.” -Henry Adams
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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.” -Edward Abbey
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“Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
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“All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn’t read it the way you read history or science.” -Leslie Fiedler
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“Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‘Doctor Who.’ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.” -Terry…
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“The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.” -Robert Bork
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“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” -William Osler
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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.” -Thomas S. Monson
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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.” -Pope Paul VI
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“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.” -Alan Turing
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“I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I’m really bad at it. I’m just a terrible drawer. I can’t draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can’t draw a straight line.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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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.” -Michael J. Fox
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“All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.” -Gustave Flaubert
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“Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements.” -Christy Turlington
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“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.” -Camille Paglia
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“In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.” -Charles Lindbergh
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“I had people in my life who didn’t give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.” -Temple Grandin
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“I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.” -Steven Spielberg
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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.” -Publilius Syrus
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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.” -Christopher Hitchens
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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.” -Paracelsus
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“The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that’s the appeal of science fiction.” -William Shatner
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“That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.” -Bill Watterson
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“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.” -Will Durant
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“We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.” -Deepak Chopra
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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.” -J. K. Rowling
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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.” -Kirstie Alley
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“I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it’s more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that’s all clever stuff.” -Tom Felton
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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.” -Aleister Crowley
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“Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.” -E. O. Wilson
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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.” -Ansel Adams
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“Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It’s just always all in the way you use it. So there’s no – you can’t really blame anything on the technology. It’s just the way people use it, and it always has been.” -Steve Martin
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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.” -Rod Serling
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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.” -Alfred Adler
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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.” -Denis Diderot
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“Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.” -Roy H. Williams
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“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.” -Stendhal
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“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.” -David Suzuki
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“‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’” -W. H. Auden
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“The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.” -Anton Chekhov
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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.” -Diogenes
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“One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.” -Alexander Pope
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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.” -Paul Dirac
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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.” -Ernest Holmes
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“Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.” -Thomas Aquinas
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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.” -Richard Dawkins
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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.” -Thomas Szasz
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“Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.” -John Burroughs
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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.” -Stephen Hawking
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“The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.” -Samuel Butler
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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.” -James Madison
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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?” -Richard P. Feynman
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“A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.” -Simone Weil
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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.” -Maria Montessori
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“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.” -Isaac Asimov
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“Science is but an image of the truth.” -Francis Bacon
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“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!” -Honore de Balzac
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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.” -Jules Verne
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“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.” -John Ruskin
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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.” -Isaac Newton
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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.” -William Blake
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“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” -Galileo Galilei
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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.” -Neil Armstrong
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“The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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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.” -George Eliot
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“Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.” -Bertrand Russell
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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.” -Karl Marx
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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.” -Marcel Proust
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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.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.” -Blaise Pascal
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“We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.” -Carl Sagan
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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.” -Abdul Kalam
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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.” -Thomas Sowell
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” -Immanuel Kant
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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.” -Thomas Carlyle
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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…
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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.” -Charles Darwin
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“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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