Science Quotes
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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
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There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored.
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I was a political science major. I was always interested in social impact.
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I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that's because technology has caught up with us.
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Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are afraid... He's got to perform. The post-doc is an indentured labourer.
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Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.
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If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.
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Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.
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Which facts are relevant and which are not relevant to a science will be relative to the current state of development of that science.
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Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining, too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a unique human author in scientific exposition, have transformed the reading of most scientific papers into an act of tedious drudgery.
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We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
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From uranium there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed for convenience the α radiation, and the other of a more penetrative character, which will be termed the β radiation.
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unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.
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I wanted to make an explicitly educational comic that taught readers the concepts I covered in my introductory programming class. That's what 'Secret Coders' is. It's both a fun story about a group of tweens who discover a secret coding school, and an explanation of some foundational ideas in computer science.
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My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.
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I always was passionate about science fiction and horror, and my parents enjoyed that as well.
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There is a lot of pseudo-science and nonsense out there on the Internet, and everyone feels the need to send it to me. And I'm sitting there thinking, 'It isn't real! Stop it!'
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All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
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Art and science have their meeting point in method.
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Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.
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... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
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When I was living on my own, for a footballer it's easy to do the things that you're not supposed to, or not what the sport science team says. For example, if there's a packet of crisps, you're going to eat them. The same with a packet of sweets. Go to bed at a certain time? You're not going to if you're on your own.
