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Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences. -- Samuel R. Delany
Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. -- Noam Chomsky
There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable. -- Herman Melville
Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science. -- Simon Greenleaf
The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry, especially in the human sciences, will need to be rethought from the ground up in terms of intelligent design. -- William A. Dembski
Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. -- Honore de Balzac
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness. -- Tom DeLonge
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. -- John Charles Polanyi
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. -- Alexander Pope
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. -- Thomas Love Peacock
It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human. -- Felix Bloch
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. -- David Hume
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. -- Rupert Sheldrake
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. -- Steven Pinker
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human. -- Brian Greene
Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base. -- Ahmed Zewail
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. -- Jared Diamond
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare. -- Herbert A. Simon
I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences. -- Ian Hacking
I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful. -- Michael Shermer
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. -- Paul Berg
Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all. -- Julian Baggini
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind. -- Tony Hoare
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science. -- Sam Harris
Human science is an uncertain guess. -- Matt Prior
Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. -- Michael Crichton
Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
Intellectual curiosity and the human brain are the root of science. -- Eraldo Banovac
Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated -- James W. Pennebaker
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. -- Herbert Spencer
History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. -- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base. -- Ahmed H. Zewail
I'm no quitter, unless it comes to human relationships or math and science. -- Dov Davidoff
Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more. -- John Ortberg
Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith. -- Serj Tankian
Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it. -- Albert Einstein
No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically. -- Leonardo da Vinci
A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic. -- Robert J. Sawyer
The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence. -- Joao Magueijo
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. -- Aldous Huxley
Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it. -- Leo Tolstoy
Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature. -- Thomas Szasz
Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless. -- Jacque Fresco
The quickest way to destroy ocean science is to take human explorers out of the water -- James Cameron
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence. -- Ray Kurzweil
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected. -- Karl Popper
The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance -- Lewis Thomas
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science. -- Martin H. Fischer
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. -- Albert Einstein
Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight. -- Emanuel Lasker
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. -- Brian Aldiss
Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply. -- William Osler
People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something. -- Paola Antonelli
Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character. -- L. P. Jacks
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality. -- Naguib Mahfouz
The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. -- Edward Teller
Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death. -- Bertrand Russell
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- David Honegger
What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have. -- Swami Vivekananda
We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. -- Kenichi Fukui
A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature. -- Annie Jump Cannon
The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception. -- Marco Rubio
Just like science, there must be other kinds of sensations which haven't yet been feltby the human heart at all. -- Toba Beta
Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I see science and mysticism as two complementary manifestations of the human mind; as its rational and intuitive faculties.Capra -- Katherine Ramsland
Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience. -- Zoltan Istvan
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny. -- John F. Kennedy
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. -- Bill Vaughan
Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close. -- Carl Sagan
Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled. -- Jeremy Griffith
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain. -- Julian May
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. -- Isaac Asimov
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description. -- Emile Durkheim
Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming. -- Harrison Schmitt
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true. -- C. S. Lewis
Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge Ã priori. -- Immanuel Kant
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement. -- Ben Bernanke
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. -- John Charles Polanyi
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science. -- Jamie Dimon
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues. -- James Dyson
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being. -- Karl Popper
...this is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith... -- Nirmala Srivastava
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. -- J. J. Abrams
Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire. -- Bertrand Russell
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
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. -- Karl Popper
A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will. -- Isaac Asimov
History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind. -- Irving Langmuir
Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong. -- Allan Sandage
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around. -- Spider Robinson
In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt. -- Huston Smith
History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies. -- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
The language of science?and especially of a science of man?is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity. -- Thomas Szasz
Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives. -- Santosh Kalwar
While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner. -- Mike Pence
V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human. -- Jonathan Maberry
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable. -- Starhawk
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. -- E. O. Wilson
Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment. -- Theodosius Dobzhansky
Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. -- Henry Adams
If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events. -- Freeman Dyson
In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing. -- Pauley Perrette
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
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. -- Richard Dawkins

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