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Science

Science grows like a weed every year. – Kary Mullis

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that. – Gillian Anderson

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it. – Bianca Jagger

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life. – Samuel Alexander

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why. – Allen Klein

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. – Edward Teller

Science is the systematic classification of experience. – George Henry Lewes

Science is not addressed to poets. – George Henry Lewes

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction. – John Boyd Orr

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. – Karl Popper

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths. – Karl Popper

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day. – Eric Schmidt

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets. – Martin Feldstein

If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism. – Malcolm Turnbull

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. – Octavia Butler

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. – Octavia Butler

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest. – Octavia Butler

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. – Octavia Butler

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. – Octavia Butler

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away. – Paul Wolfowitz