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Stephen Jay Gould
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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
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Erwin Chargaff
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Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
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John D. Barrow
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There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
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Erwin Chargaff
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Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
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Stephen Jay Gould
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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classr
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Bishop of Worcester, wife
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My dear, descended from the apes! Let us hope it is not true, but if it is, let us pray it will not become generally known.
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Pierre Charron
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In 1860 the famous duel between T.H. Huxley and Bishop Wilberforce took place, and the wife of the bishop of Worcester is reported to have said this in reaction to hearing Darwin???s theory of evolution.
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Marie Curie
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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Arthur C. Clarke
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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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E. B. White
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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James D. Watson
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
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Hugh Walpole
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In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
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Alvin Toffler
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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Lewis Thomas
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The uniformity of earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled.
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Lewis Thomas
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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
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Edward Teller
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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
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Gertrude Stein
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The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Adam Smith
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
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Adam Smith
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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Richard Selzer
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Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
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Carl Sagan
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Jean Rostand
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
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Wilhelm Reich
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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
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Robert Quillen
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If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
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Max Planck
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Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
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Charles Pierce
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There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
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Linus Pauling
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
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Wolfgang Pauli
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That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!
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Dave Parnas
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Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
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Eugene O'Neill
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Happiness hates the timid! So does science!
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John von Neumann
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Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
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Howard Nemerov
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Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
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Edward R. Murrow
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A satellite has no conscience.
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Ashley Montagu
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The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
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Wilson Mizner
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When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
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Margaret Mead
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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
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Walter Lippmann
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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Jay Leno
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Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
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Jerome Lejeune
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I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist.
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Charles Kettering
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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Carl G. Jung
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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Thomas H. Huxley
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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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Thomas H. Huxley
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Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
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Jane Howard
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Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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Alfred Hitchcock
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
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Aubrey Eben
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Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.
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Rebecca West
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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Henri Poincare
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Science is facts just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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Paul Gauguin
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Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realise that everything connects to everything else.
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Carl Sagan
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
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Thomas Szasz
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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Pierre Charron
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The true science and study of man is man.
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Aristotle
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
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Samuel Butler
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Joseph Roux
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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Eugene O'Neill
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Happiness hates the timid So does science
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Hugh Walpole
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In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
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Eugene O'Neill
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Happiness hates the timid! So does science!
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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Carrie P. Snow
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Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
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Edward Teller
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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
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Carl Sagan
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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Jean Rostand
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
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Steven Wright
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When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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H. L. Mencken
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Stanislaw I. Leszczynski
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Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
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Richard Phillips Feynman
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If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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John Dewey
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Arthur C. Clarke
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In the long run, there are no secrets. in science. The universe will not cooperate in a cover-up.
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Hippocrates
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Samuel Johnson
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Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
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Bill Cosby
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Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.
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William Hiram Foulkes
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Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.
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Adam Smith
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Nancy Banks-Smith
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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.
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Albert Einstein
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
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Jacob Chanowski
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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Rudolf Virchow
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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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Evan Esar
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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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Arthur C. Clarke
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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Bill Watterson
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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.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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Evan Esar
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Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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Michael Talbot
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The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.
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GRAY: _Elegy, The Epitaph._
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Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
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Jane Howard
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Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
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Evan Esar
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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
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Thomas Huxley
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The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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Carl Sagan
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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Isaac Asimov
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
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Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.
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Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
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What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searchin
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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
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The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
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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
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Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?
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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought a
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Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right so
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"Bad science drives out good science." -- Gresham's Law
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.
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Science asks why. I ask why not.
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You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Science is nothing but perception.
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"You know, I don't think math is a science. I think it's
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Hindsight is an exact science.
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Politics is no exact science.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art is science made clear.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Astrology is God's science.
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Science is the record of dead religions.
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I'm leaving my body to science fiction.
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Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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Engineering is the art or science of making practical.
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
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Science is the only true guide in life.
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Science: preconception meeting verification.
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Science is but the statement of truth found out.
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Art and science have their meeting point in method.
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Science is true ... don't be misled by facts.
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Remember ... there's more to life then Science Fiction, but not much.
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Human science is an uncertain guess.
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Prepare for the future ... Read Science Fiction.
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Reality is for people who can't handle science fiction.
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All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
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Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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