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.
Quotes to Explore
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
Ulrich Beck
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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.
W. H. Auden
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
Irving Langmuir
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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.
Karen Joy Fowler
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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.
Sam Harris
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Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.
Palmer Luckey
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What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
Gardner Dozois
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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.
Mae Jemison
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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.
Nancy Roman
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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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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
Earl Wilson
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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.
Irving Langmuir
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I will do my best to support science in Korea and space programs in Korea.
Yi So-Yeon
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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.
J. Michael Straczynski
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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.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
Carlo Goldoni
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Your greatest fulfillment in life will come when you discover your unique gifts and abilities and use them to edify others and glorify the LORD.
Neil T Anderson
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Vengeance is mine; I will repay.
Leo Tolstoy
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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
Oscar Wilde
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Siblings are often very opposite.
Alycia Debnam-Carey
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We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.
John C. Maxwell
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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.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty