#science

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. ↗

— Emily Post

#ethics #etiquette #everything #fork #honor

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. ↗

— Irving Layton

#halo #self-esteem

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#i #lame #member #political #political science

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book. ↗

— Robert Reed

#arms #before #book #came #deal

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#conscience #dance #disco #go #just

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#analogous #consciously #does #fact #fictional

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#care #ellison #enough #fiction #hard

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#been #brutal #century #human #human rights

Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#also #authority #become #body #controls

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#assimilate #concepts #cosmology #creation #different