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People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science. – John Polkinghorne

Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give – such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn. – Mikhail Bakunin

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. – Henry Fielding

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over – except when they are different. – Nancy Banks Smith

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. – Louis Pasteur

Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena. – Stanislav Grof

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs. – Stanislav Grof

According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes. – Stanislav Grof

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class. – Eric Alterman

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts. – Kenneth L. Pike

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. – Claude Bernard

Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems. – Jeff Goodell

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies. – Jeremy Rifkin

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist. – Robert Lanza

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science! – Steve Wozniak

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. – H. P. Blavatsky

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. – Henri Poincare

Science is facts. – Henri Poincare

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. – Henri Poincare

If we reject science, we reject the common man. – Naguib Mahfouz