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"In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science."
Mike Johanns
"In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science."
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"The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
Stephen Hawking
"The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
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"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."
Malcolm Wallop
"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."
Sara Paretsky
"I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science."
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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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"The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors."
Vernor Vinge
"The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors."
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"Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science."
Martin H. Fischer
"Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science."
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"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
Charles Darwin
"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
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"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?"
Stephen Wolfram
"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?"
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"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."
Steven Pinker
"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."
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"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."
Albert J. Nock
"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."
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"Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?""
Erwin Chargaff
"Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?""
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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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"The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example."
Dave Barry
"The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example."
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"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."
Elizabeth Moon
"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."
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"I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast."
Ivan Reitman
"I'd always been a science fiction enthusiast."
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"A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight."
Orville Wright
"A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight."
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"Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge."
Alexis Carrel
"Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge."
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"Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science."
E. O. Wilson
"Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science."
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"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
Clifford Geertz
"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
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"Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it."
Amelia E. Barr
"Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it."
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"My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot."
Monique Coleman
"My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot."
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"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."
George Stigler
"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."
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"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."
Norman Spinrad
"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."
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"Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science."
Ernest Lawrence
"Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science."
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"I quite enjoy science fiction."
Lexa Doig
"I quite enjoy science fiction."
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"Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period."
Francis Parker Yockey
"Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period."
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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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"Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision."
Marion Zimmer Bradley
"Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision."
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"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."
James G. Frazer
"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."
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"Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe."
Bill Frist
"Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe."
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"Does not science prove that there is no Creator?"
Paul Moody
"Does not science prove that there is no Creator?"
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"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."
Terri Windling
"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."
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"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."
Cleveland Abbe
"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."
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"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."
Robert Sheckley
"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."
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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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"I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books."
Jean M. Auel
"I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I'm not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books."
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"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."
Henri Frederic Amiel
"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."
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"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."
Leland Stanford
"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."
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"So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is."
Bob Inglis
"So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is."
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"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
Thomas Huxley
"The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
John Ruskin
"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
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"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant."
Miguel de Unamuno
"True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant."
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"One of my degrees was a science degree in biology."
Elizabeth Moon
"One of my degrees was a science degree in biology."
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"A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets."
Martin Feldstein
"A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets."
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"I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science."
Mary Mastrantonio
"I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science."
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"We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage."
Michael Shermer
"We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage."
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"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."
Guglielmo Marconi
"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."
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"American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France."
Suzanne Fields
"American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France."
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"Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories."
Jeffery Deaver
"Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories."
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