#scienc

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#antitrust #case #courts #currently #federal

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#companies #consulting #contractual #especially #into

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#different perspective #doing #fiction #future #little

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#conscience #feeling #got #his #illustrations

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write. ↗

— James Rollins

#after #critique #fiction #first #group

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark. ↗

— James Rollins

#bit #ends #go #history #i

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#born #cause #child #christian #compassion

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#beginning #comes #conscience #constitution #designs

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#defend #first #freedom #i #liberty

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#lame #religion #science #without