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We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Fredrik Bajer

Writer · Danish · 1837 – 1922

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Elbert Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Erich Fromm

Psychologist · American · 1900 – 1980

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

W. H. Auden

Poet · English · 1907 – 1973

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Vernor Vinge

Writer · American · b. 1944

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

Michael Behe

Scientist · American

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Thomas Aquinas

Theologian · Italian

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Bertrand Russell

Philosopher · British · 1872 – 1970

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

Joshua Lederberg

Scientist · American · 1925 – 2008

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher · French · 1905 – 1980

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.

Stanislav Grof

Psychologist · Czechoslovakian · b. 1931

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

John Sladek

Author · American · 1937 – 2000

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

Economist · Canadian · 1869 – 1944

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Gertrude Stein

Author · American · 1874 – 1946

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Michael Pollan

Educator · American

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Theodore Sturgeon

Writer · American · 1918 – 1985

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientist · Canadian · b. 1929

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Scientist · English · 1825 – 1895

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.

Albert Einstein

Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Director · Italian · 1912 – 2007

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Writer · American

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw

Dramatist · Irish · 1856 – 1950

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosopher · Austrian · 1889 – 1951

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Thomas Huxley

Scientist · English · 1825 – 1895

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Sara Paretsky

Author · American · b. 1947

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.

Martin Fleischmann

Scientist · English · b. 1927

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

William Blake

Poet · English · 1757 – 1827

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Ray Bradbury

Writer · American · b. 1920

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

William Bernbach

Businessman · American · 1911 – 1982

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

Paul Nurse

Scientist · British · b. 1949

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

Rudy Rucker

Scientist · American · b. 1946

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

Seth Lloyd

Educator · American

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

Bill Frist

Politician · American · b. 1952

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Edward Sapir

Scientist · American · 1884 – 1939

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.

Rudy Rucker

Scientist · American · b. 1946

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

William Irwin Thompson

Philosopher · American · b. 1938

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

Roland Joffe

Director · English · b. 1945

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

Scientist · Italian · 1564 – 1642

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientist · Canadian · b. 1929

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Michael Shermer

Writer · b. 1954

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

Historian · American · 1885 – 1981

I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.

Anthony Doerr

Writer · American

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Elizabeth Moon

Author · American · b. 1945

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Thomas Hobbes

Philosopher · English · 1588 – 1679

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

Jean M. Auel

Writer · American · b. 1936

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

Activist · American · b. 1928

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Huxley

Scientist · English · 1825 – 1895

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Hippocrates

Scientist · Greek

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