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Science Quotes
"However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible."
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"The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community."
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"Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique."
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"This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here."
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"During our brief stay on planet Earth, we owe ourselves and our descendants the opportunity to explore - in part because it's fun to do. But there's a far nobler reason. The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and literally revolves around us. In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations would be prone to act on their 'low contracted prejudices.' And that would be the last gasp of human enlightenment - until the rise of a visionary new culture that could once again embrace, rather than fear, the cosmic perspective."
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"These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe."
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"The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants."
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"Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena."
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"Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted."
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"Every day between now and his slaughter in six months, 534 [Pollan's steer] will convert 32 pounds of feed into four pounds of gain- new muscle, fat, and bone."
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"The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind."
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"Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization."
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"Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science."
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"In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong."
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"Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs."
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"Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science."
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"The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe."
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"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."
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"Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century."
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"A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology."
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"Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects."
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"And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future."
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"For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom."
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"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
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"That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself."
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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."
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"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."
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"The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method."
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"When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves."
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"I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there."
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"Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups."
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"Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it."
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"Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites."
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