976 private quotes tagged science

“The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!” — Gary Vaynerchuk

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“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

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“What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.” — Henry A. Wallace

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“Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.” — Freeman Dyson

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“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.” — John Calvin

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“I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.” — James Dyson

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“Science grows like a weed every year.” — Kary Mullis

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“Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.” — Jacob Bronowski

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“When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.” — Marissa Mayer

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“Nature engenders the science of painting.” — Robert Delaunay

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“The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both.” — Freeman Dyson

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“Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.” — Randy Newman

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“When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.” — Leon Battista Alberti

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“That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.” — Charles Babbage

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“I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.” — J. J. Abrams

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“Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.” — Mary Baker Eddy

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“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.” — Will Durant

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“I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.” — John Polkinghorne

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“People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.” — John Polkinghorne

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“The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.” — James D. Watson

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“Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.” — Eric Alterman

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“What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them they were born that way.” — Octavia Butler

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“Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.” — Nancy Banks Smith

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“Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.” — Jeff Goodell

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“I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.” — James Dyson

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