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- Nov 07, 2020
Science Quotes
Science taken seriously, and occasionally not.
Most of these quotes come from people genuinely engaged with science, recalling museum trips that sparked early curiosity and admiring mathematics for tackling problems that actually have solutions. For quotes on scientific humor specifically, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
- Madness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
My workouts are based on very heavy, fast movements using weights, the science behind it being that the faster you move a weight, the more fast twitch fibres you rip and then repair.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
- Atom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leave the atom alone.
- Nov 07, 2020
With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020