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Science Quotes


"I warn you against believing that advertising is a science."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science."


"Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth."


"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."


"I was always good at math and science and physics."


"I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."


"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."


"I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport."



"It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human."


"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."


"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."



"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."


"Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted."


"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."


"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'."


"Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment."


"Intellectual curiosity and the human brain are the root of science."


"As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science."


"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature."
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