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I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis. -- Henry Mintzberg
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. -- Barry Commoner
The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction. -- Jacque Fresco
Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science. -- Jane Mayer
Between the poor and any appreciation for modern science stands a wall made of failed schools, defunded libraries, denied opportunities, and the systematic use of science and technology to benefit other people at their [the poor's] expense. -- John Michael Greer
You can be totally committed to conservative principles - to individual liberty, a market economy, entrepreneurship and lower taxes - and still be a Green Conservative. You can believe that with the sound use of science and technology and the right incentives to encourage entrepreneurs, conservatism can provide a better solution for the health of our planet than can liberalism. -- Newt Gingrich
In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future. I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and humane use of science and technology. This does not call for scientists to manage society. What I suggest is applying the methods of science to the social system for the benefit of human kind and the environment. -- Jacque Fresco
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man. -- Chauncey Wright
Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion. -- Stephen Hawking
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. -- John Charles Polanyi
Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain. -- Julian May
One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. -- Herbert Simon
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
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
Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. -- Emily Post
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. -- Edmund Hillary
In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues. -- Peter Agre
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. -- John Charles Polanyi
I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity. -- Olivia Wilde
We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students. -- Patrick Stewart
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used. -- Polykarp Kusch
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective. -- Alan Alda
What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant. -- Jim Sanborn
Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands. -- Polykarp Kusch
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics. -- Jean M. Auel
I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist. -- Grant Achatz
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. -- Henri Poincare
That's just how time travel looks like to the untrained eye. The reason why there aren't more travelers is that your average physicist refuses to be eaten by a giraffe in the name of science. -- Bradley Sands
[T]he artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted... -- Thomas Jefferson
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science. -- Jared Diamond
To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery. -- George MacDonald
Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience. But a kind of Gresham's Law prevails in popular culture by which bad science drives out good. -- Carl Sagan
Science always uses metaphor. -- James Lovelock
Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas. -- Edward Kasner
The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions. -- Henry David Thoreau
Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. -- Bill Vaughan
Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life. -- Silver RavenWolf
Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation -- Alija Izetbegovic
Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work. -- Edward M. Lerner

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