“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
— H. L. Mencken
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific
“Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.”
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Science will explain how but not why.
“Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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So I decided on science when I
“So I decided on science when I was in college.”
— Sally Ride
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Change is the principal feature of our
“Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.”
— David Brin
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I see nothing in space as promising
“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.”
— E. B. White
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A second reason why science cannot replace
“A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.”
— Martin Feldstein
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I also like to look at the
“I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.”
— J. Michael Straczynski
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It is through science that we prove,
“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”
— Henri Poincare
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In science, read by preference the newest
“In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.”
— Amy Lowell
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and
“Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.”
— E. O. Wilson
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