3 December 2020 Paul Nurse I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.
3 December 2020 Kenneth L. Pike Acceptance of the power of God in one’s life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov 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.
3 December 2020 Walter Jon Williams Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
3 December 2020 Cathy McMorris Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.
3 December 2020 Michael Behe It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.
3 December 2020 Sara Paretsky I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
3 December 2020 John Charles Polanyi Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren’t thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.
3 December 2020 Jean-Paul Sartre Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’
3 December 2020 Christine Gregoire We’ve established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.
3 December 2020 Clifford Geertz Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There’s been an extraordinary advance.
3 December 2020 Mark Russell The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
3 December 2020 Matt Groening I’ve loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I’ve read quite extensively as an adult.
3 December 2020 Francis Parker Yockey Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
3 December 2020 Leon Battista Alberti When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
3 December 2020 Carl Sagan We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
3 December 2020 Mary Douglas It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
3 December 2020 James Anthony Froude Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness but a belief is always sensitive.
3 December 2020 Lukas Foss I don’t dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.
3 December 2020 Michael P. Anderson Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.
3 December 2020 Samuel Alexander Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
