976 private quotes tagged science

“Science is not addressed to poets.” — George Henry Lewes

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“Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.” — E. T. Bell

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“I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.” — Stephen Jay Gould

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“In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting.” — Lord Kelvin

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“I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.” — Ridley Scott

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“Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.” — Stephen Jay Gould

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“Science is the systematic classification of experience.” — George Henry Lewes

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“I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.” — Octavia Butler

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“Science does not permit exceptions.” — Claude Bernard

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“Fashion is more about feel than science.” — Pharrell Williams

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“I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.” — Cindy Margolis

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“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

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“The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“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

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“Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.” — Joshua Foer

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“Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.” — Ivan Pavlov

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“To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.” — Matthew Fox

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“He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?” — Robert Barclay

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“Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.” — Jared Diamond

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“While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.” — Mike Pence

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“Experimentation is an active science.” — Claude Bernard

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“Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.” — Eric Ries

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“You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.” — Imogen Cunningham

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