#science

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#critically #detachment #development #economy #imagined

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#lead #medicine #policy #politics #rhetoric

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. ↗

— William Bernbach

#art #fundamentally #happens #persuasion #science

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#experimentation #observation #passive #science

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#children #creative #endeavor #raising #raising children

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#apollo #big #contributor #doubt #engineering

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#compensation #conscience #debtors #forgetfulness #gift

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #describe #get #make #model

In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#extraterrestrial-life #life #science #universe #wonder

Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable. ↗

— William Bailey

#science #death