“When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.”
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“When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.”
“Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.”
“I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.”
“A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.”
“I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.”
“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
“The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.”
“It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.”
“Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.”
“Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.”
“One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.”
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”
“History is the science of things which are not repeated.”
“I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.”
“Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.”
“My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.”
“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.”
“Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
“Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.”
“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
“Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.”