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Science Quotes
"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."
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"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."
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"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense."
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"Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science."
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"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
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"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
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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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"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic."
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"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
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"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption."
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"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
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"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone."
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"I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded."
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"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."
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"I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit."
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"In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations."
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"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."
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"But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth."
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"In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology."
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"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."
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"Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood."
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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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"Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath."
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"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts."
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"Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement."
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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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"The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will."
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"Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!"
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"At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense."
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"I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything."
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