3 December 2020 Jay Leno Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
3 December 2020 Lewis Mumford However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.
3 December 2020 Iain Banks Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
3 December 2020 Michael Behe Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
3 December 2020 Bill Toomey The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.
3 December 2020 Tony Snow Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
3 December 2020 Seth Lloyd Of course, not everybody’s willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, – if the experiments don’t work, then it means it’s not science.
3 December 2020 Imogen Cunningham You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Rifkin It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there’s no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.
3 December 2020 Margaret Mead Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins 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.
3 December 2020 Jacob Bronowski Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
3 December 2020 Joseph Wood Krutch Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
3 December 2020 Richard Powers Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
3 December 2020 Terri Windling When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn’t have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
3 December 2020 Octavia Butler I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
3 December 2020 Charles Lindbergh I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
3 December 2020 H. P. Blavatsky The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
3 December 2020 John Polkinghorne Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science’s story.
