#scienc

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation. ↗

— William Bell Riley

#evolution #fact #first #hypothesis #important

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

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#ago #architecture #art #believe #fought

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. ↗

— Will Rogers

#conscience #getting #guide #instead #lawyers

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness... The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science

Public opinion is a second conscience. ↗

— William R. Alger

#opinion #public #public opinion #second

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#absolute truth #eternal #makes #pretension #science

Yeah I loved, as a kid growing up, I loved science-fiction. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#growing up #i #kid #loved #science-fiction

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#desire #fashion #inspires #rather #science

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. ↗

— John Dickey

#competence #conscience #education #end #made