#science

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science. ↗

— Richard Powers

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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. ↗

— Richard Powers

#condition #control #cultivating #face #forever

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. ↗

— Robert Quillen

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In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#conscience #expensive #life #many #more

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

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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

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#ever #important #industrial #more #science

Life is not an exact science, it is an art. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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

— E. T. Bell

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