976 private quotes tagged science

“Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.” — John B. S. Haldane

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“Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.” — Jacob Bronowski

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“I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.” — Kevin J. Anderson

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“Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.” — Peter Mullan

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“So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.” — Steve Case

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“The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.” — Alfred Adler

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“Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.” — Linus Pauling

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“By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.” — E. O. Wilson

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“Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.” — Miguel de Unamuno

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“What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.” — Henry Adams

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“If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.” — Robert Quillen

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“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.” — David Attenborough

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“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.” — Pope John Paul II

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“Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.” — E. O. Wilson

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“Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.” — E. O. Wilson

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“I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.” — Joan Jett

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“When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.” — Anton Chekhov

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“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?” — Richard P. Feynman

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“I was always attracted to science fiction movies.” — Tina Turner

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“Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.” — Swami Sivananda

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“Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.” — Edward Bach

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“My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.” — James Dyson

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