#scienc

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. ↗

— Jane Howard

#anthropology #beamed #gave #her #platform

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#belief #calmness #experiment #meet #opponent

For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will ve replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances. ↗

— Daniel J. Levitin

#science #truth #change

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science. ↗

— James Inhofe

#fear #global #global warming #much #over

We cannot rest until each of us would be satisfied with randomly assigning our own children to any public school in the nation. ↗

— Jason Kamras

#education #inspirational #inspirational-success-failure #motivational #politics

It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#leadership #lord #megalomania #sci-fi #science-fiction

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#big #big cities #chains #cities #lead

There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#couple #every #hundred #members #probably

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

#debt #earn #fellow #highest #highest reward

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. ↗

— Frances Wright

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