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Science

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting. – Donald Norman

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. – Hans Eysenck

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. – Robert Graves

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated. – James D. Watson

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty. – James D. Watson

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. – James D. Watson

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe. – Tony Snow

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables. – Tony Snow

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin. – Marcus V. Pollio

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. – Sarah Zettel

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on. – Michael Behe

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural. – Michael Behe

Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history. – John Coleman

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection. – Michael Behe

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. – Michael Behe

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues. – Michael Behe

Science is a self-sufficient activity. – Jonathan Miller

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach. – Dean Inge

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. – David Brin

One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. – Herbert Simon