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Science

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. – John Charles Polanyi

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society. – John Charles Polanyi

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. – John Charles Polanyi

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. – John Charles Polanyi

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. – John Charles Polanyi

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. – John Charles Polanyi

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner. – Mike Pence

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize. – Murray Gell-Mann

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars. – Murray Gell-Mann

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. – Ivan Pavlov

Fashion is more about feel than science. – Pharrell Williams

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by. – Steve Wozniak

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history. – Fred Saberhagen

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science. – Bill Toomey

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people. – Matthew Fox

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction. – Joshua Foer

Science fiction encourages us to explore… all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. – Marion Zimmer Bradley

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph. – Imogen Cunningham

You see, I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. – Imogen Cunningham

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science. – Jared Diamond