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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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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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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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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Ancient science had sought knowledge of what things are, to be contemplated as an end in itself satisfying to the knower. In contrast, modern science seeks knowledge of how things work, to be used as a means for the relief and comfort of all humanity, knowers and non-knowers alike.
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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
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The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next...
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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
