#scienc

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#certain kinds #fiction #friends #i #interest

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#fiction #imaginative #lot #people #science

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#cannot #decide #decisive #ever #explained

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#before #being #even #gods #made

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#how #important #know #science #she

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#any #appear #current #day #error

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#achievement #atom #atom bomb #became #bomb

I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#created #danger #did #efforts #half

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#destruction #endangered #further #human #human species

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#learn #poetry #science #those #who