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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
-Olympia Brown
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I hate science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock-scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.
-Basil Bunting
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Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
-William S. Burroughs
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No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.
-William S. Burroughs
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They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
-William S. Burroughs
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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.
-Vannevar Bush
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Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
-Samuel Butler
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Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?
-Thomas Campbell
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
-Thomas Carlyle
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There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.
-Raymond Chandler
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The true science and study of man is man.
-Pierre Charron
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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
-G. K. Chesterton
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
-G. K. Chesterton
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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut Animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?
-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
-Robin G. Collingwood
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
-Cyril Connolly
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The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics.
Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.
http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speech-alienscauseglobalwarming.html
-Michael Crichton, Speech, California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA), January 17, 2003
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Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
-David Cronenberg
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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.
-Marie Curie
Lecture at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
-Rene Daumal
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It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?
-Richard Dawkins
Unweaving the Rainbow; Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder, Houghton Mifflin Co., November, 1998
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Books about Science
