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A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests, exotic micro-organisms have arisen independently of terrestrial life, studying them could revolutionise biology, medicine and biotechnology. – Paul Davies

For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance. – Paul Davies

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life. – Robin G. Collingwood

We need to be pro-science we have to go back to science. – Al Franken

It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me. – Nicole Scherzinger

If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do. – Marvin Minsky

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor. – Leland Stanford

Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive. – Leland Stanford

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out. – Arthur Young

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling. – Joshua Lederberg

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will. – Dixie Lee Ray

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science. – Edward Sapir

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science. – Edward Sapir

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. – Kary Mullis

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness but a belief is always sensitive. – James Anthony Froude

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong. – George Meredith

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. – Robert Trout

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. – Norman Spinrad

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. – Walter Gilbert

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos. – William Irwin Thompson