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Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.
Edward Sapir on science

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
Kary Mullis on science

Science grows like a weed every year.
Kary Mullis on science

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.
Gillian Anderson on science

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.
Bianca Jagger on science

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.
Robert Ballard on science

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
Samuel Alexander on science

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.
Allen Klein on science

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
Edward Teller on science

Science is the systematic classification of experience.
George Henry Lewes on science

Science is not addressed to poets.
George Henry Lewes on science

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
John Boyd Orr on science

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
Karl Popper on science

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper on science

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Joseph Roux on science

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.
Melissa Rosenberg on science

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
Kevin Kelly on science

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.
Eric Schmidt on science

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.
Martin Feldstein on science

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.
Laurell K. Hamilton on science