976 private quotes tagged science

“My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.” — Jean M. Auel

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“Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.” — Jane Goodall

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“Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.” — Charles Babbage

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“Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.” — Edmund Husserl

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“When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now when was then?” — Bill Nye

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“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.” — Isaac Asimov

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“In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.” — Marvin Minsky

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“As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.” — Louise Slaughter

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“Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best.” — Robert H. Austin

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“It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on.” — Michael Behe

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“My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.” — Melinda Gates

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“Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.” — Roger Bannister

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“I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.” — Ellen Ochoa

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“Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.” — Vivienne Westwood

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“My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.” — Barry Commoner

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“Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.” — Bill Richardson

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“In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.” — Mary McCarthy

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“Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.” — John Polkinghorne

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

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