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Science Quotes
"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."
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"I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science."
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"It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena."
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"I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole."
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"If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction."
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"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
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"The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science."
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"As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize."
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"Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them."
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"There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited source of energy."
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"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."
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"Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge."
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"A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well."
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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'."
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"I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless you identify the learning mechanisms. And these have some genetic basis."
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"Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs."
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"That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization."
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"In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology."
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"What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth."
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"And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones."
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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."
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"Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method."
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"I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier."
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"In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor."
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"The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos."
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"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1."
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"If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing."
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"Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well."
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