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Science Quotes
"Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection."
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"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
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"Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10."
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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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"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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"Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense."
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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 always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
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"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."
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"I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of."
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"Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath."
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"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
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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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"He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together."
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"Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature."
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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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"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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"Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself."
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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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"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."
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"It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human."
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"When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months."
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"The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general."
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"We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible."
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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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"Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable."
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"Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication."
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