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Politics is the science of urgencies.
Theodore Parker on science

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
Luther Burbank on science

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.
Jared Diamond on science

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
Jared Diamond on science

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
Jared Diamond on science

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?
Robert Barclay on science

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.
Mayer Hawthorne on science

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
Mary Douglas on science

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.
Phillip E. Johnson on science

There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.
Margot Kidder on science

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
Michael Pollan on science

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
Michael Pollan on science

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
John B. S. Haldane on science

There can be no truce between science and religion.
John B. S. Haldane on science

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
John B. S. Haldane on science

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
Iain Banks on science

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
Iain Banks on science

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
Iain Banks on science

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
Iain Banks on science

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.
Iain Banks on science