#sci

Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#development #diseases #factors #focusing #health

It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#bad #department #fail #having #invest

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. ↗

— James Buchan

#been #carriages #catastrophic #century #electricity

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#becomes #bits #canvas #dabbling #direction

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#brooklyn #build #buy #people #scientists

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#challenge #enjoying #house #i #interest

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#finality #give #only #way #world

Consciousness is a disease. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#disease

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#else #fascists #hate #intelligence #which

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant. ↗