“Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.”
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“Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.”
“Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.”
“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”
“Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.”
“He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.”
“A satellite has no conscience.”
“In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.”
“If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.”
“There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.”
“The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.”
“The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.”
“When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.”
“Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.”
“Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.”
“Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.”
“Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.”
“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.”
“Leave the atom alone.”
“Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'”
“There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.”
“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”
“Man lives for science as well as bread.”