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Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years. ↗

— George E. Brown, Jr.

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The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#humor #science #art

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting. ↗

— Bill Bryson

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There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated. ↗

— Leon Kass

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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing. ↗

— Yancy Butler

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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. ↗

— Vannevar Bush

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If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well. ↗

— Melvin Calvin

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A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

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