“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”
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“We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.”
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.”
“All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.”
“The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.”
“Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.”
“Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.”
“Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.”
“Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.”
“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.”
“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
“Politics is not an exact science.”
“Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.”
“Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.”
“Politics is the science of urgencies.”
“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.”
“My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.”
“I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.”
“So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.”
“Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.”
“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.”
“The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.”
“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.”
“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”