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Science Quotes
"I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way."
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"All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge."
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"Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view."
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"A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless."
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"Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us."
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"Everything in nature acts in conformity with law."
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"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance."
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"But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates."
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"Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts."
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"The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself."
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"Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth."
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"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph."
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"When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into."
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"Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects."
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
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"To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people."
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"Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences."
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"The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research."
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"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."
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"But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science."
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"In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda."
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"Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems."
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"There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition."
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"Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago."
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"I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science."
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"The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences."
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"Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds."
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"As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science."
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"It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics."
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"This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects."
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