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"The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do."
Lindsay Wagner
"The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do."
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"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
Baruch Spinoza
"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
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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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"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 was a Political Science major."
Harry Shearer
"I was a Political Science major."
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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."
Adam Smith
"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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"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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"If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows."
Bill Bryson
"If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows."
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"Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology."
Erich Fromm
"Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology."
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"Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science."
E. M. Forster
"Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science."
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"It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of."
Jean Rostand
"It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of."
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"Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity."
Leon Kass
"Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity."
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"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen..."
Douglas Adams
"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space, listen..."
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"If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done."
Christa McAuliffe
"If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done."
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"The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe."
Richard Dawkins
"The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe."
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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."
James H. Breasted
"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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"The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or the ethanol content of the galactic cloud W-3. The quantity of 200-proof alcohol in this single interstellar cloud was more than enough to maintain the present population of the Earth, if every adult were a dedicated alcoholic, for the age of the solar system. The tamada had appreciated the remark."
Carl Sagan
"The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or the ethanol content of the galactic cloud W-3. The quantity of 200-proof alcohol in this single interstellar cloud was more than enough to maintain the present population of the Earth, if every adult were a dedicated alcoholic, for the age of the solar system. The tamada had appreciated the remark."
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"My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope."
H. G. Wells
"My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope."
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"Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all."
Edmund Husserl
"Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all."
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"As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery."
Judy Biggert
"As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery."
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"While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner."
Mike Pence
"While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner."
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"I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process."
John Anderson
"I'm not being evasive but I am saying I'm not a scientist and I'm not directly involved in the consultation however the science must be sound, it must be agreed and the consultation must be of a high quality or no one will have any confidence in the process."
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"I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole."
Robert Sheckley
"I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole."
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"It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone."
Ferdinand de Saussure
"It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone."
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"Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers."
John Bardeen
"Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers."
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"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."
Alva Myrdal
"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."
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"The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time."
David M. Brown
"The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time."
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"Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion."
Leon Kass
"Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion."
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"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph."
Imogen Cunningham
"I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph."
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"But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied."
Nassau William Senior
"But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied."
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"I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all."
Jack Vance
"I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all."
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"I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters."
Ivan Reitman
"I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters."
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"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean."
John Locke
"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean."
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"The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method."
Katherine Gerould
"The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method."
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"I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing."
Steven Weinberg
"I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing."
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"It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment."
Galileo Galilei
"It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment."
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"Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English."
Matthew McGrory
"Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English."
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"Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time."
Charles Francis Richter
"Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time."
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"We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines."
James Van Allen
"We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines."
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"I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap."
Robert Ballard
"I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap."
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"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."
John Burroughs
"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."
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"So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching."
Phillip E. Johnson
"So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching."
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"The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless."
Ernst Mach
"The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless."
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"Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon."
Sidney Altman
"Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon."
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"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression."
John Charles Polanyi
"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression."
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"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought."
Walter Gilbert
"The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought."
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"The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science."
John Charles Polanyi
"The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science."
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"It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science."
Peter Agre
"It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science."
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"The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself."
Howard Aiken
"The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself."
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"The simplest science book is over my head."
James Merrill
"The simplest science book is over my head."
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