976 private quotes tagged science

“I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.” — Laurell K. Hamilton

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“Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.” — Samuel Alexander

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“So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.” — Octavia Butler

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“The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.” — Octavia Butler

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“The science of life is changing hearts and minds.” — Gary Bauer

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“A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.” — Martin Feldstein

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“I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.” — Octavia Butler

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“Fantasy is totally wide open all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.” — Octavia Butler

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“Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.” — Octavia Butler

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“The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.” — Edward Teller

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“While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.” — Allen Klein

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“One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.” — Paul Wolfowitz

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“With science fiction there's endless possibilities.” — Anna Torv

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“I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.” — Paul Wolfowitz

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“Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.” — John Boyd Orr

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“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

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“No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.” — Octavia Butler

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“I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.” — Patricia Cornwell

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“We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.” — Laurel Clark

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“Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.” — Edward Thorndike

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“Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.” — Josef Albers

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“Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.” — Stephen Jay Gould

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“Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.” — Stephen Jay Gould

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“For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.” — Charles Rangel

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“Science is always inquiring.” — Thabo Mbeki

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