- Think
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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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lost my faith in science.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
- Possibilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020