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Science Quotes
"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."
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"I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue."
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"Statistics is the grammar of science."
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"To measure is to determine the ratio of one quantity to another which is invariable or assumed to be invariable. Invariability in respect of the property to be measured, or at least the legitimacy of assuming such invariability, is a sine qua non of all measurement. Only when this assumption is admissible is it possible to determine the variations that are to be measured."
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"The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction."
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"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."
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"Imagine trying to live in a world dominated by dihydrogen oxide, a compound that has no taste or smell and is so variable in its properties that it is generally benign but at other times swiftly lethal. Depending on its state, it can scald you or freeze you. In the presence of certain organic molecules it can form carbonic acids so nasty that they can strip the leaves from trees and eat the faces off statuary. In bulk, when agitated, it can strike with a fury that no human edifice could withstand. Even for those who have learned to live with it, it is an often murderous substance. We call it water."
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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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"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
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"Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time."
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"There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory."
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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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"The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant."
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"There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end."
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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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"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
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"The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches."
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"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption."
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"The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation."
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"Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
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"And I submit to you, that science, scientific discovery, especially cosmic discovery, does not become mainstream until the artist embraces the fruits of those discoveries."
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"Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath."
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"In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference."
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"While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why."
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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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"My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine."
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"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."
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"There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed."
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"We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected."
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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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"Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate."
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"Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed."
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"It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural 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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"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
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"There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study."
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