#sci

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#ascribed #fifty #forces #given #gods

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#fact #fiction #general #i #i love

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it. ↗

— John Otto

#conscious #exactly #felt #first #groove

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.' ↗

— Dave Parnas

#anyone #mean #really #says #theoretically

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline. ↗

— George S. Patton

#only #perfect #sort

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. ↗

— Luciano Berio

#between #consciousness #demands #ears #finger

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#doing #i #know #research

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#end #exists #journey #moreover #only

He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together. ↗

— John Brough

#boundary #commerce #done #floats #gave

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality. ↗

— Karl Popper

#does #far #must #reality #scientific