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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. -- Milton Friedman
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. -- George Washington
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. -- Thomas Huxley
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. -- Basmah bint Saud
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer. -- Mark Haddon
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. -- Barbara Tuchman
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. -- Walter Jon Williams
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
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. -- David Brin
We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science. -- Daniel Tammet
My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions. -- David Blaine
My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way. -- Margaret Atwood
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
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. -- Larry Wall
There's always been a little bit of tension between the writers of science fiction literature and then science-fiction televised shows or movies, partly because they have a different dynamic. -- John Scalzi
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method. -- Frederik Pohl
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on. -- R. A. Salvatore
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art. -- Anne Stevenson
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs. -- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based. -- Christian Lous Lange
[Science is] the literature of truth. -- Josh Billings
Science Fiction is the jazz of literature. -- David Brin
Science fiction is the very literature of change. -- Frederik Pohl
Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature. -- Thomas M. Disch
Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature. -- Dana Stabenow
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. -- Barbara Tuchman
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. -- Thomas Huxley
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. -- John Henry Newman
The case I shall find evidence for is that when literature arrives, it expels science. -- Peter Medawar
Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it. -- Katharine Kerr
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology. -- Northrop Frye
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. -- Paul Valery
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts. -- Mike Tyson
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. -- Amy Lowell
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance. -- Clifford Geertz
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance -- Clifford Geertz
One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty. -- Joseph Joubert
I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy. -- Lois Lowry
Modern science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us. -- Isaac Asimov
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. -- Isaac Asimov
The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end. -- John Steinbeck
Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation. -- Susan Sontag
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character. -- James A. Garfield
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end. -- David O. McKay
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. -- J. G. Ballard
I feel a bit of an imposter talking about the science. I'm not a scientist, you may be aware. I read English Literature. -- James Delingpole
Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it. -- Tom Shippey
Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms. -- Connie Willis
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
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens. -- Barack Obama
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast. -- Julien Torma
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake. -- Nancy Pearcey
I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together. -- Jacob Bronowski
Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion. -- Swami Vivekananda
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
I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.' -- David Gerrold
Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace. -- Stephen Colbert

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