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"That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine."
Charles Babbage
"That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine."
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"Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it."
Heinz R. Pagels
"Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it."
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"Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too."
Kevin J. Anderson
"Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too."
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"My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot."
Monique Coleman
"My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot."
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"I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human."
Joe Morton
"I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human."
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"When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science."
Shannon Lucid
"When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science."
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"I quite enjoy science fiction."
Lexa Doig
"I quite enjoy science fiction."
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"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."
Robert Graves
"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."
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"In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings."
Rudy Rucker
"In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings."
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"Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe."
Bill Frist
"Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe."
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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
"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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"Science is what scientists do."
Dennis Flanagan
"Science is what scientists do."
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"Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story."
Hugo Gernsback
"Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story."
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"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
Irving Babbitt
"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
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"A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets."
Martin Feldstein
"A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets."
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"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."
Thomas Dekker
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."
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"Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope."
Carrie P. Snow
"Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope."
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"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man."
Edward Thorndike
"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man."
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"I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part."
Jean M. Auel
"I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part."
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"We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum."
Philip Greenspun
"We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum."
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"I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting."
Bill Bryson
"I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting."
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"All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses."
Ann Druyan
"All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses."
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"Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science."
Wanda Sykes
"Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science."
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"We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect."
Hannes Alfven
"We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect."
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"Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science."
Ann Druyan
"Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science."
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"I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it."
Jean M. Auel
"I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it."
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"Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor."
Emily Post
"Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor."
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"That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together."
Duane G. Carey
"That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together."
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"Science grows like a weed every year."
Kary Mullis
"Science grows like a weed every year."
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"The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science."
Rudolf Hilferding
"The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science."
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"It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection."
Michael Behe
"It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection."
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"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science."
Anton Chekhov
"When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science."
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"The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like."
Aaron Klug
"The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like."
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"Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible."
Charles Krauthammer
"Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible."
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"I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books."
Anthony Doerr
"I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books."
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"I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated."
James D. Watson
"I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated."
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"It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural."
Michael Behe
"It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural."
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"Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction."
John Boyd Orr
"Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction."
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"It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest."
Frank Knight
"It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest."
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"And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore."
Joseph Glanvill
"And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore."
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"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
Elizabeth Moon
"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
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"I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted."
Frederick Reines
"I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted."
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"That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent."
George Stigler
"That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent."
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"Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?"
Victor Hugo
"Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?"
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"There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited source of energy."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
"There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited source of energy."
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"When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man."
James Sanborn
"When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man."
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"I was always good at math and science and physics."
Daniel J. Evans
"I was always good at math and science and physics."
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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."
Michael Pollan
"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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"One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments."
Rudy Rucker
"One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments."
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"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."
John Sladek
"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."
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