3 December 2020 Fredrik Bajer We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
3 December 2020 Alton Brown Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
3 December 2020 Ann Druyan Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
3 December 2020 W. H. Auden ‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
3 December 2020 Pope John Paul II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.
3 December 2020 David Brin There’s no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
3 December 2020 Lewis Thomas Much of today’s public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
3 December 2020 Freeman Dyson Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
3 December 2020 Marie Curie After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
3 December 2020 Jaron Lanier We’re losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
3 December 2020 Werner Heisenberg Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Rifkin What’s different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That’s what makes it both powerful and exciting.
3 December 2020 Phillip E. Johnson So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
3 December 2020 Edward Thorndike Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
3 December 2020 Michael Sheen I’m a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy – not so much horror because I get a bit scared.
3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Moon There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
3 December 2020 Joshua Foer Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Rifkin Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Moon It may be far in the future, but there’s some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
3 December 2020 Alan Dershowitz I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It’s impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.
