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"The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees."
Kenneth G. Wilson
"The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees."
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"Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science."
Seth Lloyd
"Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science."
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"I warn you against believing that advertising is a science."
William Bernbach
"I warn you against believing that advertising is a science."
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"But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science."
David Brin
"But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science."
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"This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here."
Kevin Kelly
"This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here."
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"As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct."
Alfre Woodard
"As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct."
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"But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation."
Fisher Stevens
"But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they're in a dire situation or comedic situation."
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"New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us."
Marc Garneau
"New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us."
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"But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science."
Michael Shermer
"But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science."
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"At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science."
Deborah Bull
"At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science."
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"Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth."
Thomas Huxley
"Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth."
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"The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction."
Nassau William Senior
"The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction."
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"One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages."
Sigourney Weaver
"One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages."
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"I was always good at math and science and physics."
Daniel J. Evans
"I was always good at math and science and physics."
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"I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve."
Charles Lindbergh
"I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve."
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"My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method."
Frederik Pohl
"My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method."
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"One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments."
Rudy Rucker
"One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments."
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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."
Kenichi Fukui
"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 have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."
John Sladek
"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."
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"The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true."
Ralph Cudworth
"The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true."
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"The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics."
Leon Kass
"The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics."
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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
Isaac Asimov
"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
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"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."
Benjamin Jowett
"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."
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"Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible."
Sydney Smith
"Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible."
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"I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport."
Frederik Pohl
"I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport."
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"I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff."
Tom Felton
"I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff."
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"It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human."
Felix Bloch
"It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human."
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"I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members."
Guglielmo Marconi
"I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members."
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"The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war."
Simon Newcomb
"The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war."
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"The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues."
Michael Behe
"The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues."
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"I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it."
Leslie Nielsen
"I have always loved science fiction. One of my favorite shows is 'Star Trek.' I like the trips, where it drops my mind off, because they give you a premise and all of a sudden, you say, 'Oh!' and I'm fascinated by it."
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"Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do."
Joseph Wood Krutch
"Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do."
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"Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted."
Michael Behe
"Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted."
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"To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two."
Sheri S. Tepper
"To me, fantasy has always been the genre of escape, science fiction the genre of ideas. So if you can escape and have a little idea as well, maybe you have some kind of a cross-breed between the two."
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"If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want."
Frederik Pohl
"If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want."
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"My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward."
Esther Williams
"My training in Science of Mind had begun with my mother. She took me to a different church every Sunday, and she encouraged me to question the minister afterward."
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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."
Felix Klein
"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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"I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot."
Mark Goddard
"I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot."
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"I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school."
Mary Wesley
"I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school."
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"Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom."
Kenneth Miller
"Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom."
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"I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex."
Marina Sirtis
"I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my Star Trek character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex."
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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'."
Richard Dawkins
"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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"Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment."
Allen Tate
"Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment."
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"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have."
Albert Einstein
"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have."
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"Intellectual curiosity and the human brain are the root of science."
Eraldo Banovac
"Intellectual curiosity and the human brain are the root of science."
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"As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science."
Louise Slaughter
"As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science."
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"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature."
Martin H. Fischer
"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature."
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"By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science...."
Orson Scott Card
"By deciding that they would study only that which could be verified under controlled conditions, they had merely limited their field of endeavor. Most truth lay outside the neat confines of science...."
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"I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but that's a little way off yet."
Jeremy Bulloch
"I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but that's a little way off yet."
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"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."
Isaac Asimov
"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."
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