Brand Blanshard Quotes
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.
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.
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If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
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I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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We must learn to set our emotions aside and embrace what science tells us. GMOs and nuclear power are two of the most effective and most important green technologies we have. If - after looking at the data - you aren't in favour of using them responsibly, you aren't an environmentalist.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
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So I decided on science when I was in college.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.
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The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
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Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.
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Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
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A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.
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You have to decide when it is time to move on. I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring and I was dancing with younger dancers.
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I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
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If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.
