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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. -- Thomas Hobbes
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. -- John Ruskin
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. -- Thomas Kuhn
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. -- Hippocrates
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. -- Luther Burbank
Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this. -- Wen Jiabao
I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science. -- Rene Auberjonois
Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact. -- Chuck Berry
The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact. -- Thomas Mallon
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books. -- Ray Bradbury
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. -- Hans Eysenck
The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation. -- William Bell
I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more. -- Rita Dove
With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore. -- Michael Specter
And I thought I would just share with you what science says today about silicone breast implants. If you have them, you're healthier than if you don't. In fact, there's no science that shows that silicone breast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier. -- Tom Coburn
The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science. -- Richard P. Feynman
Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400 years of science, right? I mean, in the 18th century, in the 18th century you could become an expert on any field of science in an afternoon by going to a library, if you could find the library, right? -- Seth Shostak
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. -- Nikola Tesla
Truth in science is always determined from observational facts. -- David Douglass
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science. -- Claude Bernard
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. -- Evan Esar
Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts. -- Henri Poincare
Religion deals with beliefs and faith, but science deals with truth and facts. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. -- Mary McCarthy
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes. -- B. F. Skinner
To do science is to search for repeated patterns, not simply to accumulate facts. -- Robert MacArthur
Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought -- Ernst Mach
Our religion will not clash with nor contradict the facts of science in any particular. -- Brigham Young
If God is God, he is the God of reality and facts and science and history. -- Eric Metaxas
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. -- George Santayana
I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable. -- Barack Obama
Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts. -- James Bryant Conant
Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn't come close. -- Jerry A. Coyne
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply. -- William Osler
Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose. -- Margaret Fuller
Science is something that you have facts. They can be tested. They can be checked. Heterosexual AIDS, another one. -- Ann Coulter
School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts. -- Ivan Pavlov
Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act. -- Ann Druyan
Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game. -- Blake Edwards
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts. -- Michael Faraday
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science. -- Auguste Comte
[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate. -- Hermann Bondi
Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming. -- Harrison Schmitt
Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science. -- Richard Dawkins
We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts, -- John F. Kerry
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. -- William Lawrence Bragg
Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science. -- Jonathan Sarfati
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. -- George Eliot
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It's crucial we know the facts and science, but it's naÃ¯ve to rely on them alone to build a movement for change. -- Annie Leonard
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. -- Barack Obama
The science is in. The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts. -- Dalai Lama
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. -- David O. McKay
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. -- John Ruskin
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God. -- Frances Power Cobbe
Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought. -- Ernst Mach
Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. -- Will Durant
Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance. -- Claude Bernard
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. -- William James
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein
With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures. -- James Jeans
Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built. -- Claude Bernard
the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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