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Science Quotes


"I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it."


"Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer."


"Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green."


"I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it."


"Scientists are human, they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process."


"Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne."


"Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task."


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


"In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism."


"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."


"And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore."


"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts."


"The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection."


"Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites."


"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."


"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories."


"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes."


"The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler."


"I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science."


"Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced."


"From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science."


"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."


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


"From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself."


"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."


"The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them."


"It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof."


"However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means 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."
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