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Science

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. – Paul Wolfowitz

Science fiction is becoming more of a diverse kind of genre. – Anna Torv

The science of life is changing hearts and minds. – Gary Bauer

In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting. – Lord Kelvin

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely. – Josef Albers

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. – Donald Knuth

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. – E. T. Bell

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. – Stephen Jay Gould

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. – Edward Thorndike

Science is always inquiring. – Thabo Mbeki

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded. – Paul Nurse

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. – Paul Nurse

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. – Paul Nurse

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. – Paul Nurse

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. – Huston Smith

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. – Kenneth L. Pike

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations. – Claude Bernard

Experimentation is an active science. – Claude Bernard

Science does not permit exceptions. – Claude Bernard

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. – John Charles Polanyi