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Science Quotes
"Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations."
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"In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern."
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"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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"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."
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"In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern."
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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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"It is the theory that decides what can be observed."
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"A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless."
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"Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science."
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"Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense."
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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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"We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible."
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"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
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"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion."
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"The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or the ethanol content of the galactic cloud W-3. The quantity of 200-proof alcohol in this single interstellar cloud was more than enough to maintain the present population of the Earth, if every adult were a dedicated alcoholic, for the age of the solar system. The tamada had appreciated the remark."
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"Smart radiation researchers use radiation resistance health techniques in order to offset the known biological harm of their toxic radiation exposures."
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"Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced."
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"There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be."
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"The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers."
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"Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers."
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"But now they have it down to a real science where it's about an hour."
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"The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one."
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"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."
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"What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth."
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"And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones."
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"I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all."
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"We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better."
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"The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method."
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