George Bernard Shaw Quotes
You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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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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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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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.
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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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The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.
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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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The best doctors and medicine in the world can't save you if you don't do what you're supposed to do.
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
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When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.
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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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Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
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Good and strong will. Mechanism must precede science (learning). Also in morals and religion? Too much discipline makes one narrow and kills proficiency. Politeness belongs, not to discipline, but to polish, and thus comes last.
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Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
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What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.
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I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.
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David James Elliott and I keep in touch via phone.
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People ask me whether I see 'Star Wars' as a comedy or a tragedy, but it's really neither - it's partly a history, like 'Henry V,' and partly a fantasy, like 'The Tempest.'
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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
