976 private quotes tagged 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

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“Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.” — Charles Krauthammer

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“First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.” — Martin Feldstein

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“At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly.” — Joseph Rotblat

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“But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.” — Joseph Rotblat

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“I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.” — Richard Powers

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“In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.” — Amy Lowell

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“The goal is to normalize trade relations based on sound science and consumer protection.” — Mike Johanns

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“We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.” — Mike Johanns

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“I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.” — William Hurt

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“When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.” — Terri Windling

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“This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.” — Jerry Moran

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“The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.” — Jim Sensenbrenner

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“From my earliest days I had a passion for science.” — Joseph Rotblat

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“Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.” — Richard Powers

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“I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.” — Joseph Rotblat

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“Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.” — Walter Jon Williams

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“I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.” — Joseph Rotblat

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“I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.” — James Spader

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“Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.” — Walter Lang

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“Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.” — Joseph Rotblat

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“There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.” — Fred Saberhagen

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“Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.” — Jeffery Deaver

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“Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.” — Billy Campbell

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“Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.” — Scott Ritter

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