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Science Quotes


"In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science."


"We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do."


"I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science."


"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."


"The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations can't make progress in understanding complex phenomena in the natural world, how might we make progress?"


"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu."


"The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century."


"Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?""


"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."


"The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example."


"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."


"My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot."


"And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists."


"As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography."


"Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period."


"The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being."


"Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe."


"When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into."


"True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions."



"I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way."


"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."


"From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor."


"So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is."


"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant."


"We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage."


"Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy."


"Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories."
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