Quotes:It's not a precise
science and in the end it's only the individual that knows what he can and cannot do, but I know Michael (Vaughan) and Duncan (Fletcher) will give him the maximum amount of time. [on Simon Jones]
View quotes by David GraveneyThis is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly. (
Science for the Citizen)
View quotes by Lancelot HogbenThe negative cautions of
science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
View quotes by Margaret MeadThe fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of
science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.
View quotes by Stephen Jay GouldI submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-
science.
View quotes by Thomas SzaszHe it was that first gave to the law the air of a
science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.
View quotes by Barry YelvertonScience fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
View quotes by Isaac AsimovIt is God who is the ultimate reason of things, and the knowledge of God is no less the beginning of
science than his essence and will are the beginning of beings.
View quotes by Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizScience is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
View quotes by Erwin ChargaffThe saddest aspect of life right now is that
science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
View quotes by Isaac AsimovScience and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
View quotes by J G BallardI am aware of the usefulness of
science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
View quotes by Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharThe con
science of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that
science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
View quotes by Aleister CrowleyDetection is, or ought to be, an exact
science, and should be treated in the same cold unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces the same effect as if you worked a love-story into the fifth proposition of Euclid.
View quotes by Arthur Conan DoyleThink of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of
science?
View quotes by Carl SaganPoets say
science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
View quotes by Richard Feynman Now, there is always a tremendous fear of
science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy
View quotes by Nick NolteBooks are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb,
science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
View quotes by Barbara TuchmanScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
View quotes by Imannuel KantI don't plan to write another
science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.
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