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Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy. -- E. O. Wilson
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers. -- James D. Watson
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve. -- Peter Deunov
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ... -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative. -- Zoe Saldana
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos. -- Diana Gabaldon
There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style. -- David Gelernter
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that. -- Gary Oldman
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot. -- Mark Goddard
Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I here? What is it that makes me who I am? Those are the kind of questions my favorite science fiction films ask. -- Joseph Kosinski
There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate and key is mathematics ... He who is ignorant of this [mathematics] cannot know the other sciences nor the affairs of this world. -- Roger Bacon
No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frasier, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology. -- Bronislaw Malinowski
For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward. -- Charles Kingsley
Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money. -- Gary Larson
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. -- Marie Curie
Having a great marriage isn't rocket science. It's simply a choice. --
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. -- Adam Smith
Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science." -- James Bridie
Eve and the apple was the first great step in experimental science. -- James Bridie
The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity. -- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. -- Paul Davies
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. -- John Dewey
One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.' -- Carl Sagan
No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy. -- Lyman Beecher
I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation. -- Terry Pratchett
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. -- Lyman Beecher
The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. -- Freeman Dyson
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition -- Steven Weinberg
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Huxley
[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself. -- Isidor Isaac Rabi
Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science. -- Jacob Bronowski
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. -- Harold E. Varmus
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it. -- Erwin Schrodinger
Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity. -- Richard Branson
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios. -- Ray Kurzweil
If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art. -- William Osler
There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible. -- Charles H. Townes
Understanding is, after all, what science is all about "? and science is a great deal more than mindless computation. -- Roger Penrose
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. -- Charles Darwin
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing. -- Steven Weinberg
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
I am walking today because of chiropractic care I received years ago. I predict a great future for the science of chiropractic. -- Jeane Dixon
It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it. -- Robin Williams
I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction. -- Connie Willis
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. -- Lynn Swann
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. -- John Podhoretz
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. -- Muriel Spark
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action. -- Otto Weininger
Although science and technology open up boundless opportunities, they also present great perils because Satan employs these marvelous discoveries to his great advantage. -- James E. Faust
Scientists are human-they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. -- Cyril Ponnamperuma
I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us. -- Alan Alda
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting. -- Thomas Huxley
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science. -- Ernest Rutherford
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free. -- Thomas Jefferson
The Hubble Law is one of the great discoveries in science; it is one of the main supports of the scientific story of Genesis. -- Robert Jastrow
The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small. -- Giacomo Leopardi
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. -- Michael J. Fox
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect. -- John Fowles
I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone. -- Dallas Campbell
Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good. -- David Duchovny
A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths. -- Claude Bernard
Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity. -- Heinz Pagels
Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken. -- Humphry Davy
It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction. -- John Boyd Orr
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science. -- Ben Stein
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects. -- David Gerrold
But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them. -- Leonard Adleman
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. -- Max Planck
unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm. -- Dalai Lama
Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity. -- Robert Breault
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. -- Richard P. Feynman
Doubt is clearly a value in science. It is important to doubt and that the doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of great value. -- Richard P. Feynman
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities. -- Carter Burwell
Rome is the one great spiritual organization which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization -- Thomas Henry Huxley
Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization -- Thomas Huxley
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great). -- Frederik Pohl
Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science. -- Magdi Yacoub
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless. -- Michio Kaku
Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme. -- Ben Goldacre
Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme. -- Ben Goldacre
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line. -- David Blaine
The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything. -- Walter Russell
If a thing which is believed by billions is against the reason and not supported by the science, it is a great honour not to be amongst those billions! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.) -- Carl Sagan
A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and two or three other little things." http://diggingupthefuture.wordpress.com/ -- Charles Kingsley
If you are looking for a lover, a job, a new house, or a serial killer, Snoop is for you. It's great science and a fun read by a world-renowned personality researcher. -- James W. Pennebaker

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