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science

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Science is but an image of the truth.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

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

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

A satellite has no conscience.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

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

I've lost my faith in science.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Politics is not an exact science.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Science is facts.

Science is not addressed to poets.

Science is organized knowledge.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

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

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

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

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

Art is science made clear.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

I hate science fiction.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Art is I science is we.

Experimentation is an active science.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Science does not permit exceptions.

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

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

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

We especially need imagination in science.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

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

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Science is all metaphor.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.