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As the Nation's primary supporter of research in the physical sciences, the DOE Office of Science led the way in creating a unique system of large-scale, specialized, often one-of-a-kind facilities for scientific discovery.
Judy Biggert on science

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.
Michelangelo Antonioni on science

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
Michael Shermer on science

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
Michael Shermer on science

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.
Michael Shermer on science

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
Michael Shermer on science

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
Michael Shermer on science

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
John Carmack on science

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
Elizabeth Moon on science

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
Anne Stevenson on science

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
Elizabeth Moon on science

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.
William Petersen on science

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
Elizabeth Moon on science

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.
Jerry Pournelle on science

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
Elizabeth Moon on science

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
Jerry Pournelle on science

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
James C. Maxwell on science

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.
Aravind Adiga on science

We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions based on science about what is right for our state, meaning the quality of our lives will get better.
Christine Gregoire on science

I was really bright as a kid and tested well, and it was clear that I was going to get scholarships to any schools I wanted. My dad always said I could be an engineer at that time it was the elite of society: steady job, working in science, which was then the answer to every problem we had. It was kind of a mandate. Kind of a dream he had for me.
James Wood on science