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- If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
- E. O. Wilson on Science
- 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 on Science
- If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.
- Eliza Dushku on Science
- If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
- Malcolm Turnbull on Science
- If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.
- Phillip E. Johnson on Science
- If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Science
- If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
- John Polkinghorne on Science
- If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
- Carl Sagan on Science
- If we reject science, we reject the common man.
- Naguib Mahfouz on Science
- 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 on Science
- If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
- Robert Quillen on Science
- If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.
- Marvin Minsky on Science
- If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
- If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.
- Tim Ferriss on Science
- If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.
- Jose Padilha on Science
- If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.
- James Lovelock on Science
- If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.
- Polykarp Kusch on Science
- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin on Science
- Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
- Jimi Hendrix on Science
- In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
- Hugh Walpole on Science
- In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.
- Mike Johanns on Science
- In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
- Johan Huizinga on Science
- In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
- Michael Pollan on Science
- In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
- Shimon Peres on Science
- In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
- Aravind Adiga on Science
- In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.
- Kenny Marchant on Science
- In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.
- Jonathan Carroll on Science
- In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
- In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
- Galileo Galilei on Science
- In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
- Theodore Sturgeon on Science
- In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac on Science
- In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
- Herbert Spencer on Science
- In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting.
- Lord Kelvin on Science
- In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
- Stephen Jay Gould on Science
- In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
- Paul Davies on Science
- In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
- Mary McCarthy on Science
- In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
- Thomas Huxley on Science
- In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
- Amy Lowell on Science
- In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton on Science
- In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
- Marie Curie on Science
- In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.
- Phillip E. Johnson on Science
- In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.
- Steve Wozniak on Science
- In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.
- Claude Bernard on Science
- In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.
- Denise Mina on Science
- In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
- John Boyd Orr on Science
- In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.
- Jonathan Sacks on Science
- In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
- Martin H. Fischer on Science
- In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
- Adam Savage on Science
- In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
- Tim Bishop on Science
- Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
- Russell Baker on Science
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