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Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. -- Michael Shermer
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
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. -- Rupert Sheldrake
Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science. -- John Charles Polanyi
There is no conflict between science and theology, except where there is bad science or bad theology. -- Theodore Hesburgh
The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting. -- Steven Novella
Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion. -- Karen Armstrong
It's dead obvious that creationism isn't science, or even bad science. It's nonsense. But I've long stated it's also bad religion, because it doesn't just take faith, it also takes a phenomenal disregard of reality. -- Phil Plait
People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you. -- Eugenie Scott
Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be a losing battle. One takes comfort from the fact there is no Gresham's laws in science. In the long run, good science drives out bad. -- Martin Gardner
...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science. -- Michael Pollan
I think science fiction is very bad at prediction. -- China Mieville
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal. -- Sylvia Earle
Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too. -- Richard Dawkins
Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that. -- Nalo Hopkinson
Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too. -- Hideo Kojima
I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed. -- Craig Venter
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. -- William Gibson
I feel like science fiction can get a bad rap sometimes because people make something just to throw an alien in it or just to make it weird, and it doesn't really have a story. -- Drew Roy
The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science. -- Seth MacFarlane
Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value. -- Richard P. Feynman
I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line. -- Daniel Radcliffe
We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it. -- Henry Rollins
We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research. -- Kenichi Fukui
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful. -- Patricia Briggs
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral. -- Margaret Atwood
Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science, -- Fred Thompson
If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them. -- Richard Dawkins
Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. -- Hideo Kojima
It's too bad patient-centered care is not rocket science, because if it was, we would be really good at it. -- Laura Gilpin
Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have. -- Terence McKenna
There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion. -- Hal Abelson
The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value. -- Marshall McLuhan
I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things. -- Ian Bremmer
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside. -- Beatrice Warde
The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him. -- Bill Vaughan

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