Science Quotes - page 21

The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the whole world with the products of this science to its states and nations, is now bankrupt and in decline. (Hassan Banna)
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. View quote
Mary Douglas
Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds of men; and that fallacy, through rejected by their judgments, continues to exert and influence over their acts. View quote
William John Macquorn Rankine
This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics. View quote
William John Macquorn Rankine
The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise ... Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change. View quote
Roger Wolcott Sperry
There probably is no more important quest in all science than the attempt to understand those very particular events in evolution by which brains worked out that special trick that has enabled them to add to the cosmic scheme of things: color, sound, pain, pleasure, and all the other facets of mental experience. View quote
Roger Wolcott Sperry
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. View quote
Cyril Connolly
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church. View quote
Abraham Maslow
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. View quote
Muriel Spark
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder. View quote
Jane Jacobs
It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist. (Stanislaw Ulam)
The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother ... had found true feminine fulfilment. View quote
Betty Friedan
You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about. View quote
Connie Willis
Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting. View quote
Vera Rubin
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow. View quote
John Polanyi
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. View quote
John Polanyi
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art . View quote
George Santayana
O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close the eyes, But it is wisdom to believe the heart. Columbus found a world, and had no chart, Save one that faith deciphered in the skies; To trust the soul's invincible surmise Was all his science and his only art. View quote
George Santayana
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. View quote
Brian Aldiss
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. View quote
Octavia Butler
Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. (Octavia Butler)
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy. View quote
Octavia Butler
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth? View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge-to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson