3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
3 December 2020 Irvine Welsh When I’m not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I’ve been writing quite constantly lately so I’ve been reading a lot of nonfiction – philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
3 December 2020 Theodore Sturgeon I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.
3 December 2020 James Dyson My interest in film is sort of catholic – apart from science fiction and horror movies, I’ll watch almost everything.
3 December 2020 Louise Slaughter As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush’s blatant disregard for science.
3 December 2020 Deepak Chopra We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
3 December 2020 Joe Biden I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
3 December 2020 Martin H. Fischer Don’t confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.
3 December 2020 Russell Baker Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.
3 December 2020 Margot Kidder There’s a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther King, Jr. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
3 December 2020 Carl Friedrich Gauss Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
3 December 2020 Charles Babbage That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer It’s time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
3 December 2020 Martin Feldstein And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.
3 December 2020 Daniel Radcliffe I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I’m really bad at it. I’m just a terrible drawer. I can’t draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can’t draw a straight line.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
3 December 2020 Michael Shermer But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
3 December 2020 Dixie Lee Ray The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.
3 December 2020 Charles Pierce There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
3 December 2020 Matthew Fox 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.
3 December 2020 Rene Descartes Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hobbes Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
3 December 2020 Paul Nurse Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
