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Science

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction. – Neil Gaiman

I also think we need to maintain distinctions – the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. – John Polkinghorne

I liked math – that was my favorite subject – and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science. – Sally Ride

So I decided on science when I was in college. – Sally Ride

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. – Ashley Montagu

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. – James Lovelock

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant. – Miguel de Unamuno

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity. – Margaret J. Wheatley

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. – Herbert Hoover

Art is I science is we. – Claude Bernard

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. – Andre Breton

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. – Sally Ride

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. – Sally Ride

Science always uses metaphor. – James Lovelock

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so. – James Lovelock

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. – Susan Sontag

This means that to entrust to science – or to deliberate control according to scientific principles – more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects. – Friedrich August von Hayek

True science is never speculative it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. – Cleveland Abbe

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature. – Robert Lanza

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. – Jeff Bezos