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Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

Polykarp Kusch

Scientist · German · 1911 – 1993

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

Michael Behe

Scientist · American

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

John Burroughs

Author · American · 1837 – 1921

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientist · Canadian · b. 1929

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Sarah Zettel

Author · American · b. 1966

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Physicist · American · 1904 – 1967

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it.

Herbert Simon

Scientist · American · 1916 – 2001

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.

Rudy Rucker

Scientist · American · b. 1946

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

Fred Saberhagen

Author · American · b. 1930

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

Francis Parker Yockey

Writer · American · 1917 – 1960

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

Leon Kass

Educator · American · b. 1939

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Woodrow Wilson

President · American · 1856 – 1924

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

Edmund Husserl

Philosopher · German · 1859 – 1938

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

Albert Einstein

Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientist · Canadian · b. 1929

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Carl Sagan

Scientist · American · 1934 – 1996

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Marilyn vos Savant

Writer · American · b. 1946

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Henrik Ibsen

Poet · Norwegian · 1828 – 1906

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Jacob Bronowski

Scientist · English · 1908 – 1974

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Dan Simmons

Author · American · b. 1948

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Theodore Roosevelt

President · American · 1858 – 1919

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Scientist · German · 1853 – 1932

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Michael Shermer

Writer · b. 1954

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

Bill Condon

Director · American · b. 1955

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Henri Poincare

Mathematician · French · 1854 – 1912

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

Wellington Mara

Businessman · American · 1916 – 2005

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Walter Jon Williams

Writer · American · b. 1953

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Cory Doctorow

Journalist · Canadian · b. 1971

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Edmund Husserl

Philosopher · German · 1859 – 1938

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Jamie Zawinski

Scientist · American · b. 1968

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Thomas Sowell

Economist · American · b. 1930

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

William Irwin Thompson

Philosopher · American · b. 1938

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Writer · American · 1930 – 1999

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Muhammad Iqbal

Poet · Pakistani · 1877 – 1938

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Amy Lowell

Poet · American · 1874 – 1925

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Thomas Huxley

Scientist · English · 1825 – 1895

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President · American · 1882 – 1945

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Swami Sivananda

Philosopher · Indian · 1887 – 1963

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

Neil Armstrong

Astronaut · American · b. 1930

Biology is the science. Evolution is the concept that makes biology unique.

Jared Diamond

Author · American · b. 1937

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better.

George Wald

Scientist · American · 1906 – 1997

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

John Burroughs

Author · American · 1837 – 1921

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

Serge Lang

Mathematician · 1927 – 2005

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

Theodore Sturgeon

Writer · American · 1918 – 1985

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Maria Montessori

Educator · Italian · 1870 – 1952

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

Tim Berners Lee

Inventor · English · b. 1955

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Thomas Huxley

Scientist · English · 1825 – 1895

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

John Charles Polanyi

Scientist · Canadian · b. 1929

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