976 private quotes tagged science

“Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.” — Deepak Chopra

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“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.” — Alan Perlis

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“Looks like we caught a Dragon by the tail.” — Don Pettit

Context:After successfully docking the SpaceX Dragon capsule with the International Space Station.

Source:http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/cargo/spacexmi...

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“Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a d--n.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.” — Ray Bradbury

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“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.” — Edward Abbey

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“That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.” — Bill Watterson

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“I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.” — Richard Dawkins

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“It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.” — Richard Dawkins

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“But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.” — Rebecca West

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“One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.” — Alexander Pope

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“Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.” — Richard Dawkins

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“People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.” — Donald Knuth

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“I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.” — Donald Knuth

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“There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.” — Edward Abbey

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“Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.” — Karl Popper

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“Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” — William Blake

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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” — Charles Darwin

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“Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.” — Stephen Hawking

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“The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.” — Erich Fromm

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