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Science Quotes
"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
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"The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science."
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"The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science."
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"If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing."
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"The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated."
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"Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences."
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"The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does."
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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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"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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"Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions."
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"Can there be a completely different set of laws of physics in a different universe, or do the laws of physics as we understand them hold true in all possible universes? If the answer is that a different set of laws can operate in a different universe system, this would suggest (from a Buddhist perspective) that even the laws of physics are entangled with the karma of the sentient beings that will arise in that universe."
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"We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research."
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"I wonder, he wondered, if any human has ever felt this way before about an android."
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"I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there's a continuity between philosophy and science in that way."
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"Despite the Great Chain of Being's traditional ranking of humans between animals and angels, there is no evolutionary justification for the common assumption that evolution is somehow 'aimed' at humans, or that humans are 'evolution's last word'."
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"From my earliest days I had a passion for science."
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"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."
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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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"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes."
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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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"Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer."
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"Many people implicitly believe in the Hydraulic Theory of Violence: that humans harbor an inner drive toward aggression (a death instinct or thirst for blood), which builds up inside us and must periodically be discharged. Nothing could be further from a contemporary scientific understanding of the psychology of violence. Aggression is not a single motive, let alone a mounting urge. It is the output of several psychological systems that differ in their environmental triggers, their internal logic, their neurobiological basis, and their social distribution."
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"We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it."
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"The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers."
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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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"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
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"Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth."
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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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"I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology."
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"I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science."
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"In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yields valid data is a valid test."
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"The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical."
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"There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science."
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"Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated."
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