Science Quotes
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It is science, and not religion, which has taught men that things are complex and difficult to understand.
Emile Durkheim
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General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision.
Martin Rees
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What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass.
August Strindberg
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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.
Frederik Pohl
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It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science.
Bill Nye
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The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: 'The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical.' All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.
L. Ron Hubbard
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The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
Daniel Dennett
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All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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In adapting to life in the melting pot of America, I discovered that the same soft power of science has a huge influence in building bridges between cultures and religions - and has the potential to do so with the Muslim world.
Ahmed Zewail
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Belief contains so many truths pertaining to God's Names and the realities contained in the universe that the most perfect science, knowledge, and virtue is belief and knowledge of God originating in a belief based on argument and investigation.
Said Nursi
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As accelerators reach higher and higher energies, we may need a new Standard Model, or, at least, today's may need to be modified, but that's the way science operates.
Burton Richter
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I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
Martin Fleischmann
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We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge
George Will
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Picking apart a story for its scientific underpinnings doesn't diminish it, it enhances it, makes us dream of the possibilities it proposes. I think appreciating the magic of reality, going from 'can't happen' to 'could happen,' is the fundamental appeal of science fiction.
Kyle Hill
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
Sally Ride
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I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
Donald Norman
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You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.
Albert Einstein
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When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.
Gardner Dozois
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In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.
Ann Druyan
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Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
Bernard Werber
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Ohio's students deserve a first-class education appropriate for the 21st century, not Sunday School lessons masquerading as science.
Barry W. Lynn
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Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.
Mae Jemison
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When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.
James Balog