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Science Quotes
"The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up."
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"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant."
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"But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods."
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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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"There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science."
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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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"In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last."
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"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach."
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"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
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"God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance."
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"Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine."
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"The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee."
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"I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open-always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake-after a wrong guess."
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"Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty."
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"The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers."
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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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"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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"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories."
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"I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport."
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"There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it."
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"Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts."
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"Without space, there is no time."
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"I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another."
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"No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science."
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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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"A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science."
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"The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science."
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"My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics."
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"Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself."
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"Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty."
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