Science Quotes
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In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war.
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We live in a world economically, socially, and culturally dependent on science not only functioning well, but being wisely applied.
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Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance.
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What [man landing on the moon] is doing up there is indulging his obsession with the impossible. The impossible infuriates and tantalizes him. Show him an impossible job and he will reduce it to a possibility so trite that eventually it bores him.
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Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
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The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.
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It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.
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Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
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My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged at the turn of the last century. We are a whole century behind in absorbing the leaps that quantum theory made for the human mind.
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When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind.
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There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.
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But the real glory of science is that we can find a way of thinking such that the law is evident.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more and you have to be able to have the foundation on which to stand.
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To have an extraordinary quality of life you need two skills: the science of achievement (the ability to take anything you envision and make it real) and the art of fulfillment (this allows you to enjoy every moment of it.
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.
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Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals.
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
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Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.
