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Science Quotes
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
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"Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green."
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"Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne."
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"I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it."
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"Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task."
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"In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism."
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"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."
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"The time has come when advertising in some hands has reached the status of a science."
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"The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."
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"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
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"Scientists are human, they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process."
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"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
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"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
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"Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor."
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"Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths."
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"I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it."
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"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
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"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none."
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"I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't."
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"Science begs literature to develop wings."
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"Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself."
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"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
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"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
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"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."
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"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics."
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"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
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"To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness."
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"Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements."
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"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic."
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"Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into."
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