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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
Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society. -- Randy Schekman
Society lives by faith, and develops by science. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course. -- Philip Warren Anderson
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it. -- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole. -- Arthur Holly Compton
Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies. -- David Lee
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. -- Carl Sagan
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. -- Woodrow Wilson
What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! -- Henrik Ibsen
The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live. -- Charles H. Townes
Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes. -- Margaret Wertheim
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live. -- Ruth Hubbard
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science. -- Jay Griffiths
We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people. -- J. Michael Straczynski
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. -- Robert Trout
The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this. -- Bruno Latour
I do hope that 'Interstellar' and this kind of science in film will catch the public fancy and help to reignite an interest in science - and a respect for the power of science in dealing with the problems that society has to deal with. -- Kip Thorne
We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy. And when your science runs into a policy roadblock, all of a sudden the science starts to disappear. -- Josh Fox
Society rests upon conscience, not upon science. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science -- Carl Sagan
Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science. -- Henry Charles Carey
History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. -- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society. -- Tahereh Mafi
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities. -- Paul A. Baran
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect. -- Ken Poirot
Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society. -- Rolf-Dieter Heuer
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society. -- John Charles Polanyi
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society. -- John Charles Polanyi
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." -- Isaac Asimov
Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. -- Brian Aldiss
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. -- Isaac Asimov
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists. -- Thomas Kuhn
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole. -- Arthur Holly Compton
It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands. -- Toba Beta
The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building. -- Donald Sadoway
Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations. -- Anne Roe
Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms. -- Colin McGinn
Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where. -- Rolf-Dieter Heuer
It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software. -- Richard Stallman
The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government. -- John Adams
Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science. -- Bernard Crick
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics. -- Vandana Shiva
I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society. -- Simon Winchester
You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science. -- Eugenie Scott
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions. -- Samuel Wilson
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true -- Freeman Dyson
Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people. -- Sai Baba
Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. -- Edmund Burke
To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together. -- Jacob Bronowski
Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different. -- Jacob Bronowski
What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds. -- Ramez Naam
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
We're not living in a society that science actually dominates the conversation. We're living in a situation where some science is allowed and a lot of it's about policy. -- Josh Fox
If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society. -- Eliza Dushku

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