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“Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.”
“I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make be...”
“Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.”
“Perspective is not a science but a hope.”
“Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more ...”
“The world cries out for global rules that respect the achievements of science.”
“The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.”
“I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was actually going to get my Ph.D. in poli-sci. And a lot of my material from early on i...”
“Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.”
“One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.”
“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
“We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.”
“Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.”
“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know”
“There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.”
“Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.”
“Never fire a laser at a mirror.”
“Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like ...”
“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.”
