Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
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Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.
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In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.
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One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.
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You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
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I will do my best to support science in Korea and space programs in Korea.
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We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
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Generally, I'm not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.
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The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.
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We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.
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In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.
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People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'
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To be honest, I never really had watched much sci-fi.
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Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
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Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.
